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How I learned to Stop Looping and Love the Iterator

Kushan Joshi on May 30, 2018

Let us all take out a minute from our busy lives to look at past and think how many hours did we waste fixing that for loop. If your memory returns...
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Sung M. Kim •

Thanks @kepta for the wonderful article.
I am able to see "why" iterators be so useful with those 4 "superpowers" 😀

Regarding iterator vs iterables, the way I understood is that,

  1. iterables are objects that can be iterated over
  2. so that means iterable objects return an iterator object with which we can iterate.

Did I understand it correctly?

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Kushan Joshi •

You got that damn right !

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Sung M. Kim •

Thanks Kushan 👍

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/[Abejide Femi Jr]\s/ •

Nice article Kushan

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Mohamed Hussain •

Thanks for the article....learned from it

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Sylvain Marty •

Very helpful, thank you Kushan 👌