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On Wed, 09 May 2001, Carlos Moreno wrote:

> >>  - provide STL-conformant interfaces for iterating over result sets;
> >>  - allow fields to be accessed in a type-safe manner;
> 
> This would be beautiful!  I can picture myself having fun 
> writing code like this:

One drawback is there won't be any non-const iterators on queries, nor proper
interaction with input iterators.  Still thinking about that.