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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a644fa9cd1a3869a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-14 06:11:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: List container: Insert and Delete Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:54:50 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3BF2699A.731DC436@brighton.ac.uk> References: <9sn4qm$13g29j$2@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <3BF140D9.611DE43@brighton.ac.uk> <9srvmk$1la$1@news.huji.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1005744072 8701 193.62.183.154 (14 Nov 2001 13:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Nov 2001 13:21:12 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16494 Date: 2001-11-14T13:21:12+00:00 List-Id: Ehud Lamm wrote: > > John English wrote in message > news:3BF140D9.611DE43@brighton.ac.uk... > > Sigh. Perhaps a "list" of shortcomings of existing list packages would > > be better than yet another reinvention of this particular wheel. For > > example, what's wrong with Booch lists, or for that matter the ones in > > my book (http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/ch12.htm#12.1 and > > http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/adacraft/appd.htm#d.8), or any of > > the many other implementations floating around already? > > > > I agree with this sentiment. So why not take the lead and tell us why you > didn't use the BC in your book...? Uh, because I wanted to explain the internal mechanics in the book. It's not reinventing the wheel; it's just building a wheel with a bunch of students watching, and you saying "look, this bit goes here..." :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------