Re: Container reqs

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3BD4D157.C96BBAAD@acm.org>, Jeffrey Carter says...
> >
> >So it would seem. I think SAL doesn't provide simple instantiation for
> >any Ada type.
> 
> I'm curious about this "requirement"; Does it hold for limited types too? If so,
> you are limiting the implementations in certian ways.
> 
> As a checkpoint, the STL relies on making copies of objects, so it doesn't work
> with C++'s equivalent of limited types. This isn't really too much of a
> hardship, as you can use it with pointers to such types.
> 
> It probably wouldn't prove too much of a hardship in Ada to limit the component
> library to non-limited definite types.

I'm not sure what "requirement" you're talking about. Most of the data
structures in the PragmAda Reusable Components can handle any type the
client can define an Assign procedure for. That includes many useful
limited types, such as most of the data structures.

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