Re: Generic Package

[Matthew Heaney <mheaney@on2.com>]

On Apr 27, 6:54 pm, Georg Bauhaus <bauh...@futureapps.de> wrote:
>
> OTOH, Ada.Containers has been pushed from the STL towards the Booch
> Components, or so it could be said, I think. For example, a number
> of algorithms that are typically implemented using a generic
> function in C++ have been made a predefined part of the respective
> container packages.

Yes, some of the things that are included in the algorithms-part of
the STL are included in the Ada05 container library, but that's mostly
because the Ada05 container library doesn't have (except for the array
sorting stuff) any dedicated algorithms.  I included the algorithms
that I thought were the most useful, based on my experience with the
STL.  It's not because Ada.Containers moved "towards the Booch
Components."

Martin K. claims that the Ada05 container library is too low level,
but he didn't give any specific examples.  I would be interested to
know what difficulties he had.