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From: Michael Erdmann <Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:44:26 +0200
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To: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Date: 2002-04-22T20:44:26+02:00
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
>> Marin David Condic wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think you need to have the full-blown project setup done in 
>>> order to
>>> discuss an interface to Maps. What would you suggest as a means of 
>>> getting
>>> that ball rolling? Would you like someone to take the Lists spec and 
>>> turn it
>>> into a strawman for Maps? (I hear you're a little preoccupied at the
>>> moment... :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah, that would be a good start. Right now in addtion to this I'm 
> 
> 
> 
> On second thought, we really ought to get some kind of consensus on 
> requirements before rushing headlong into design. If nothing else, it 
> will save a lot of arguments.
I guess a reference implementation which could be discussed will have
less lines than this thread.

Working in a group on an exsiting reference implementation (which
might be even a bad solution) is more open source style working then 
trying to get some kind of consensus in such a loosly connected
community as comp.lang.ada is!


Regards
    M.Erdmann