Update: The Original Booch Components

Update: The Original Booch Components

[Vincent Marciante]

A link to The Original Ada83 Booch Components now 
exists on the projects page of the Adapower site 

   http://www.adapower.com/lab

along with a link to a chat area for comments on 
proposals and discussion of other related topics.

More importantly, another slightly different way to 
correct "Defect 1" (regarding the unbounded string 
components) has been proposed and is now available.  
In addition, the code for the two proposals is now 
available for both the Ada 83 version and the Ada 95 
version of the components.  One of these proposals 
or some other proposal that anyone submits soon 
will be finalized by January and will then be released 
as the official corrections.

Any comments regarding the either the defect correction 
proposals or the unrelated, iteration proposal described 
on the original Booch main page, will be most appreciated.

For those new to Ada, the original Booch components are 
a set of components that provide definitions of non-tagged, 
generic structures and tools that work with those structures.  

The basic stuctures provided are: 

   stacks; 
   strings (sequences of any type, not just characters); 
   rings (circular queues); 
   priority or nonpriority, balking or nonbalking queues and deques;
   discrete or simple, cached or noncached maps; 
   simple or discrete bags and sets; 
   singly or doubly linked lists;
   binary and arbitrarily branching trees and 
   directed or undirected and graphs. 

The tools provide:
 
   filters, 
   pipes, 
   sorting, 
   searching and 
   pattern matching procedures,

along with 

   helper utilities 

that work with the previously mentioned structures.

Because they are covered by the same license as the 
GNAT runtime library, they may be utilized in proprietary 
software under certain specified circumstances. 

Vincent Marciante