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| <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="./sequences.html#id1394">Concepts</a></h1> |
| <p id="label-sequences-concepts">The taxonomy of sequence concepts in MPL parallels the taxonomy of the MPL |
| <a class="reference internal" href="./iterators.html">Iterators</a>, with two additional classification dimensions: |
| <cite>extensibility</cite> and <cite>associativeness</cite>.</p> |
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| __ `Bidirectional Sequence`_ |
| __ `Back Extensible Sequence`_ |
| __ `Bidirectional Sequence`_ |
| __ `Extensible Associative Sequence`_ |
| __ `Bidirectional Sequence`_ |
| __ `Back Extensible Sequence`_ |
| __ `Extensible Associative Sequence`_ |
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| Two utility concepts, |Variadic Sequence| and |Integral Sequence Wrapper|, |
| are not applicable in generic contexts, but are used to group together |
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