Re: List Container Straw Man

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

[regarding Nick Robert's suggestion for a list package specification]

I'm afraid I don't find your suggestion very palatable. It appears to be
difficult to understand, with names and operations that seem to have
nothing to to with lists or data structures in general. It also requires
multiple instantiations to obtain a simple list structure, and it seems
that even the author is unable to keep the many types with opaque names
straight.

This impression may be because we have only seen code snippets. If this
is the technique used in an existing library that you have used, supply
a pointer to this library, much as Wright has done in proposing the
Booch components, or I have done in proposing
PragmARC.List_Unbounded_Unprotected. If not, do as Dennison has done and
provide full specifications that you have compiled. Perhaps then our
misunderstandings will clear up.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Sons of a silly person."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail