How do you refer to an iterator in docs?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Apr 20 19:40:35 EDT 2012


On 4/20/2012 9:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:

> Except that "list of foos" and "sequence of foos" make sense from a
> grammar standpoint, but "iterator of foos" does not.  Or maybe it does?

I consider it grammatical, but idiomatically, it *is* an innovation. 
Language evolves as needs evolve.

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Terry Jan Reedy




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