On: Comparing Rust and Java

[viperscape]

That's true for slicing and indexes, but hopefully you can use Iterator then for basic traversal, which does this.

[catnaroek → viperscape]

Yep, when iterators do the trick, they're preferable to indexing. But some algorithms (e.g., the tortoise and hare algorithm for cycle detection) explicitly require indexing.

[llogiq → catnaroek]

Not necessarily – you can chain iterators and skip elements on the hare.

[catnaroek → llogiq]

You're right. I was thinking exclusively of the case where you have an array whose elements themselves are indices into the same array.