Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Backward iterators

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> In several places in the XSLT library, I have to process structures
> backwards, using new_cursor, finish, before. This precludes converting
> the loops to using agents with do_all, do_if etc. This will annoy
> Franck.
> 
> Well, I have no objection to annoying Franck, since he won't fix the
> bugs in the XML parser. But if he decides to do so, can we reward him
> with backward iterators?

I thought about that as well. I think that I was the first one
to explicitly state in the header comments that the iterators
are traversing from first to last. Which of course raises the
issue that we miss the iterators from last to first. We also
probably miss a few other possible iterators such as do_until.
Any naming convention for the backward iterator feature names?

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