Standard Library, Again (was: Re: Queue)

[Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> I'm in favor of any approach that gets a concensus going about what to
> select as a component library for Ada. The danger here is debating the issue
> for too long and ending up with *no* component library as a result.
> 
> AFAIK, there have been a handful of proposed directions - such as BC's+mods,
> PragmAda+mods, Ted's list package strawman, etc. So far, there seems to be
> some motion in the direction of building something from scratch based on
> Ted's strawman. It seems that this was getting bogged down in a variety of
> debates about iterators, sorts, library-level instantiations, etc. I don't
> know if we want to take some kind of vote on it or not - but it seems like
> it could be a viable direction if we can keep it from getting stalled. I
> could get behind Ted's package and would be willing to help get it
> implemented if needed - maybe others would do so as well?

Any workable standard library is better than none. TED's recent strawman
specification is certainly workable. While my initial preference is
elsewhere, if there were a consensus for this list package I would
support it.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter