[asveikau]

> I think objectively it's hard to argue that "item != market.end()" is superior to "iter.hasNext()"

Until you realize the purpose of the weird syntax in the former.

Namely: you can write algorithms where an iterator is a drop-in replacement for a simple loop through all items in an array via pointer arithmetic, if you write it to take a start and an end iterator as templates.

Plus said algorithm can take sub-ranges instead of requiring it to loop through all items.

I thought c++ iterators were very strange for many years until I understood this and other rationales.

[duneroadrunner]

Ah yes, that makes total sense. I suppose those that would like a nicer interface can just implement one on top. Like the proposed array_view<> and span<> interfaces.