From: Nemanja Trifunovic (nemanja_trifunovic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-06 14:24:52
> Just because the vast majority of sequences will be random access doesn't
mean
> we should limit ourselves to that, when it is so easy to allow the use of
> Forward Iterators.
>
Bidirectional maybe, but using a forward iterator would break some important
functionality: for instance, if an invalid sequence is detected, we step back
to the beginning of the sequence before reporting the error.