From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8eff44ec1bcf8433 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-16 08:59:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!opentransit.net!wanadoo.fr!proxad.net!feeder2-1.proxad.net!news1-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BCC5932.E5270D1B@free.fr> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:58:42 +0200 From: Jean-Marc Bourguet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Container reqs References: <9qctpn$lil$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3BCC1BEE.99169F8B@free.fr> <%JYy7.31391$ev2.37434@www.newsranger.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Oct 2001 17:59:31 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.140.208.29 X-Trace: 1003247971 news1-1.free.fr 198 158.140.208.29 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14702 Date: 2001-10-16T17:59:31+02:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <3BCC1BEE.99169F8B@free.fr>, Jean-Marc Bourguet says... > > > >* the contained types should not be limited (one can always provides > > a standard wrapper for limited types) > > That almost goes without saying. The only way to allow limited types would be to > contain unchecked accesses to them, which would make for highly unsafe > containers. When I was searching for a container library for Ada, I remember having seen one which required a clone procedure to be provided, so that it was possible to have contained limited types. It is not something I want for a standardized library. A+ -- Jean-Marc