An enumerator is in my opinion , a workaround for the fact that the concept of 'BLOCKS' are missing in Objective-C.
If it was possible to use blocks like , for example, in Smalltalk then enumerators would be useless.
In this case I made a subclass of the abstract class NSEnumerator and called it MatrixEnumerator.
The protocol definiton of NSEnumerator obliges us to implement 2 methods ( nextObject and allObjects ).
I've added one more method and that is setTraversalOrder: ; with this method you can specify how the traversal will take place (by row first then by column or by column first then by row).
A new version of the Matrix project (including the enumerator) can be found here.
Some extra functionality is also added to the Matrix class, it's now possible to get a row or a column from a matrix. Note that the rows or columns are copies from the original matrix.
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