[swift-evolution] [RFC] New collections model: collections advance indices

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Trent Nadeau <tanadeau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is the protocol for iterators called IteratorProtocol instead of
> Iterator or Iterable? If that is/was discussed elsewhere, I apologize, but I
> don't remember seeing that particular name before. Is that new to this
> proposal?

I'm using the new names introduced by SE-0006
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0006-apply-api-guidelines-to-the-standard-library.md

The protocol is not called Iterator to disambiguate it with the
Iterator associated type in Sequence from the protocol:

protocol Sequence {
  associatedtype Iterator : IteratorProtocol
}

It is not called Iterable because that would have the wrong meaning
(Sequence is iterable, the iterator iterates over its elements).

Dmitri

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