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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> Yes. There's an issue with vector cursors, they can become invalid
> because of "sliding" -- but vector cursors are rarely used (since the
> entire point of the container is to allow indexing, it's usually
> accessed that way).

Thanks.

I suppose one could include a 'generation' value in the vector,
incremented every time an element is removed or added, copied to a
cursor on creation of the cursor, and checked when the cursor is used. A
lot of work, for a slight amount of gain.