Design Patterns in C#

Chapter 28. Iterator

The intent of the ITERATOR pattern is to provide a way to access the elements of a collection sequentially. You might think that in C# there is little to explore in this topic, because the C# language and the .NET FCL build in support for iteration. However, if you extend a codebase by adding a new type of collection, you may find that you need to extend your extension by adding an iterator. This chapter examines the particular case of iterating over a composite. In addition to iterating over new types of collections, the topic of iterating in a multi-threaded environment brings up a number of interesting problems that warrant review. Iteration is not a completely solved problem, even though iteration in C# ordinarily works ...