Re: Bye, bye?

[mheaney@on2.com]

Wes Groleau wrote:
>
> But much of what I do depends on hashes
> (associative arrays), which are built-in to perl.
> Plus I attach the hash to a DBM file.
>
> To do that in Ada, I'd have to not only upgrade Xcode
> (not an option right now) and install Ada (easy, but
> requires Xcode), but I'd also have to find or build
> a hash package (not hard) and/or a DBM binding (a little
> harder).


Associative arrays will be included in the next version of Ada, as part
of the standard container library:

ada.containers.hashed_maps
ada.containers.indefinite_hashed_maps

There will also be an ordered version (which does the same thing as the
hashed version, but with a different time complexity; it's also a bit
simpler to instantiate):

ada.containers.ordered_maps
ada.containers.indefinite_ordered_maps

There are also hashed and ordered sets (for use when you don't need a
separate key and element).

You can get a reference implementation in the ai302 subdirectory at the
charles.tigris.org website.

Look for the files named a-c*.ad[sb] .

-Matt