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: 103376,3f2295ac59ed2cc0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-29 17:58:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C06E7BE.9397AED@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: List Container Straw Man (NJR V5R1) References: <9u6ahm$6gdc1$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 01:58:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.207.238 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1007085484 209.86.207.238 (Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:58:04 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:58:04 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:58:05 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17202 Date: 2001-11-30T01:58:04+00:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts wrote: > > (2) all the cursor declarations and cursor-based operations could go into a > child package SCL.Lists.[Unb|B]ounded.Cursors; I think you have a serious misunderstanding of what a list is. The operations based on positions are the basic operations of a list. Anything else is just nice to have. Any component that lacks position-based basic operations is not a list component. -- Jeff Carter "You cheesy lot of second-hand electric donkey-bottom biters." Monty Python & the Holy Grail