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That said, because the concept of iterators in C++ are a generalisation of the concept of pointers, it is correct to say "dereference the iterator", and in fact that language is used in the C++...

Consider: English is a language, but not all languages are English. Likewise, a pointer is an iterator, but not all iterators are pointers.

Actually, this is not generally true. Rather, a pointer is a type of iterator because the concept of an iterator in C++ was generalised from the concept of a pointer. However, a given iterator type...