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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The mistake was that they created a type that behaves like an array in every case except for bool, for which they created a special magical version that behaves just subtly different enough that it can break things in confusing ways.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Could you provide an example?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The biggest problem is that each element doesn't have a unique memory address; iterators aren't just pointers.

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