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| 15 | <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="./sequences.html#id323" name="concepts">Concepts</a></h1> |
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| 16 | <a class="target" id="label-sequences-concepts" name="label-sequences-concepts"></a><p>The taxonomy of sequence concepts in MPL parallels the taxonomy of the MPL |
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| 17 | <a class="reference" href="./iterators.html">Iterators</a>, with two additional classification dimensions: |
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| 18 | <cite>extensibility</cite> and <cite>associativeness</cite>.</p> |
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| 19 | <!-- The latter two are orthogonal to |
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| 20 | sequence traversal characteristics, but not to each other, meaning that |
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| 21 | a sequence can be characterized as both `Bidirectional`__ |
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| 22 | and `Back Extensible`__, or `Bidirectional`__ and |
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| 23 | `Extensible Associative`__, but not as `Bidirectional`__, |
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| 24 | `Back Extensible`__ *and* `Extensible Associative`__. |
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| 26 | __ `Bidirectional Sequence`_ |
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| 27 | __ `Back Extensible Sequence`_ |
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| 28 | __ `Bidirectional Sequence`_ |
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| 29 | __ `Extensible Associative Sequence`_ |
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| 30 | __ `Bidirectional Sequence`_ |
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| 31 | __ `Back Extensible Sequence`_ |
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| 32 | __ `Extensible Associative Sequence`_ |
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| 35 | Two utility concepts, |Variadic Sequence| and |Integral Sequence Wrapper|, |
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| 36 | are not applicable in generic contexts, but are used to group together |
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| 37 | the common parts of different sequence classes' specifications. --> |
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