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From: "Hans Malherbe" <hans.malherbe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 15 Mar 2005 04:01:30 -0800
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Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
>That's the point... there aren't any public accessor
>functions

It's a good point. If you design a library you not only have to decide
up front whether you want to let users put your class in ordered
containers but whether you want to allow containers at all (Generic
algorithms freely make copies of elements and assume value semantics).

I have to ask myself though: If I am denied access to information that
lets me  implement a < operator, am I supposed to be able to sort it?

Groete
Hans