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Iterater negativity (Score:2, Interesting)

by ken (2730)

Just read "How OOP is like Japanese food". Burke says: These are both bad things, and even wanting them is a sign that everything is just wrong. And the OOP equivalent of those danger signs is, of course, iterators. [Except in streams!] He does not go on to substantiate this comparison. I would like to hear any justification for this opinion.
Yet another JAPH
- Re:Iterater negativity (Score:1)
  
  by Dominus (464) <mjd@plover.com> on 2002.06.20 23:55 (#9840) Homepage Journal
  
  You may be interested to read Henry Baker's excellent paper Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages [plover.com]. The quick summary: If C++ had had a decent type system with reasonable polymorphism (like Perl arrays) or if it had had decent higher-order functions (like Perl map) then all this yah-yah about 'iterators' would be completely unnecessary.
  Henry Baker is one of those people where you should pay close attention to everything he says because he's nearly always right. What is it about people named Henry, anyway?
  
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