Re: Standard Queue status

[Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
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> Personally, I like his use of the "Direction" type to specify which end to start
> from in his operations. I also like the ability to convert between lists and
> unbounded arrays. I think those may merit putting in the final version. There
> are also a number of operations in there that the strawman doesn't have which
> some folks may find useful.

Yes, the use of "Direction" is elegant, and converting to and from
unbounded arrays seems useful.

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> Also I think there are too many operations in there. The package spec is huge.
> It has (by my count) 79 subprograms. The current strawman has 34, which to some
> people it seems is annoyingly small, as we keep seeing suggestions for
> additions. Perhaps in between there somewhere the truth lies.

I almost started in this direction the other day...
Even 34 subprogram seems a bit bulky to me, would it be possible to
subdivide the package further (of course it would, but would it be
useful)? Would doing so nessecarily (spl ?) make instansiation that
much more complicated ?

After all one of my general rules is:
"Don't bring in more than you need"
That is, as much as I like nifty features, I want to be able to
pinpoint exactly what facets of an object/alorithm-collection that I
want to bring in for use when solving a problem. Even if
instansiations becomes numerous or _somewhat_ more complicated.

Is it just me ?


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