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		saynsedit on June 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Most Important C++ Aha Moments (2006) Yep the beauty (and maybe curse) of C++ iterators is that they are a faithful abstraction of pointers.

aksx on June 26, 2016 [–]

some people would argue that pointers themselves are a type of iterator

TheSoftwareGuy on June 26, 2016 | [–]

I would argu those people are terribly wrong, as pointers serve more purposes than iteration

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