[swift-users] inout generic struct parameter error

[Ben Cohen]

> On Jan 2, 2017, at 1:52 AM, Georgios Moschovitis <george.moschovitis at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Btw, isn’t it strange that the next() method in `IteratorProtocol` *is* mutating, and makeIterator() is not?

Iterators are inherently stateful things. But for collections, the state they are mutating is their own progress through the collection as you iterate – they aren’t mutating the collection itself. That is what their mutating keyword on next() is indicating. On the other hand, creating a fresh one from the collection by calling makeIterator() shouldn’t need to mutate the collection.

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