Why use iterators instead of array indices?

Question

Take the following two lines of code:

for (int i = 0; i < some_vector.size(); i++)
{
    //do stuff
}

And this:

for (som         


        

Answer 1

I always use array index because many application of mine require something like "display thumbnail image". So I wrote something like this:

some_vector[0].left=0;
some_vector[0].top =0;


for (int i = 1; i < some_vector.size(); i++)
{

    some_vector[i].left = some_vector[i-1].width +  some_vector[i-1].left;
    if(i % 6 ==0)
    {
        some_vector[i].top = some_vector[i].top.height + some_vector[i].top;
        some_vector[i].left = 0;
    }

}