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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-20 12:12:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!hub1.nntpserver.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CC1BD77.EFDD044C@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: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community) References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CBAFFEE.2080708@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204171036.6f0a7394@posting.google.com> <3CBDD795.4060706@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204180800.44fac012@posting.google.com> <3CBF0341.8020406@mail.com> <4519e058.0204190529.559a47ae@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:12:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.206.206 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1019329929 209.86.206.206 (Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:12:09 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:12:09 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22829 Date: 2002-04-20T19:12:09+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > O.K. Let's cash in our reality checks and see if they bounce. Would it be > fair to say that *most* Ada developers and applications are some flavor of > Windows/Unix with no realtime requirement beyond "Don't run so slow as to > annoy the user..."? If that's the case, then we're looking at virtual memory > machines that probably run very fast and hence, having fixed or bounded > lists doesn't seem like it would be very important. No, it wouldn't be fair, at least not from my perspective. But it would be a good start, so I have no objection to it. > > If we put out a Grace.Lists and a Grace.Maps, that would certainly be a > really good start. If at a later point in time there was some kind of > groundswell indicating that there really was a need for bounded versions, > why couldn't we go with Grace.Lists.Bounded as an extension? The only reason > I can think of is that it isn't consistent with Ada.Strings. While I agree with this, if Grace becomes accepted, and we submit it to the ARG as has been requested on the Ada-Comment mailing list, then it would become part of the Ada.* hierarchy, so I suggest that consistency with those naming conventions would be a Good Thing. -- Jeff Carter "You cheesy lot of second-hand electric donkey-bottom biters." Monty Python & the Holy Grail