Iternal Versus External Iterators

submited by krishnas on Tue Jul 31st, 2007

Who controls the iteration? A fundamental issue is deciding which party controls the iteration, the iterator or the client that uses the iterator. When the client controls the iteration, the iterator is called an external iterator (C++ and Java), and when the iterator controls it, the iterator is an internal iterator (Lisp and functional languages).

Topic: java java5 java6