Re: List container: Sawdust woman 43

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> Maybe you misinterpreted what I was suggesting. Hypothetically, the decision
> could be taken to make PragmARC the "Standard Component Library" (Not
> necessarily part of the ARM...) - but given some of the requirements, there
> would need to be some enhancements made. (It doesn't support getting lists,
> etc into Streams?) If the community was willing to buy into that concept and
> we could identify a desired set of extensions/enhancements to make PragmARC
> more acceptable to the community, would that adaptation be something you'd
> be willing to supervise/coordinate?

Maybe I did. I certainly would have no objection if the Ada community
chose to adopt the PragmARCs as a standard library, and would be willing
to help incorporate enhancements that had a consensus as needed. I was
under the impression that the PragmARC's list component, at least, was
widely considered unacceptable for such a library because of some of the
design decisions.

I would still not expect the PragmAda name to be connected to the
library after acceptance as a standard library, since it would be the
specifications that were accepted, and other implementations may be
provided, as with the Ada.XYZ packages.

In the meantime, I'll hold my breath while waiting for you to form a
consensus for adopting an existing library. While I'm turning blue, it
might still be nice to get people's comments on how the PragmARC list
specification would have to change to be acceptable.

-- 
Jeffrey R. Carter
PragmAda Software Engineering