Re: Announce: Grace project site operational

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> Take a look at the package spec in CVS and see what you think.

I'm not sure that I'm qualified to comment on Ada code, but what
the heck; on the internet no one knows you're a dog :-)

Does Ada let you specify default values for generic parameters?
If it did, you could allow a count type and have it default to
Natural, which is what you use now. Otherwise, not being an Ada
programmer, I wouldn't presume to recommend a style.

By the way, I saw that you commented out the concatenator that
takes two elements and returns a list because "this might conflict".
Doesn't Ada's use of overloading by return type let you get away
with this without worrying too much? Presumably the context of the
concatenation would pick the right function. (Pardon me if I'm
rehashing an old argument; I didn't read the entire design discussion
the first time around.)