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,FREEMAIL_FROM
	autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,7502ddf2c6c41330
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail
From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Missing features in Ada.Containers
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:43:27 +0200
Message-ID: <41668B6F.10807@mailinator.com>
References: <416657E2.9050503@mailinator.com>
 <41666578$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de WiD7Q0nB1QCTq8bR2AvMDAWyHncZ+mtqHb0I4qESaWJ03xGZk=
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <41666578$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net>
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4921
Date: 2004-10-08T14:43:27+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Martin Dowie wrote:
> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> 
>>Of the top of my head I find notable the absence of the "hashed
>>strings" container. Now it seems you're alone with a "hashed map"
>>whose keys are generic of constrained nature. Thus you must make some
>>leaps to have the old (and in my case, most used) hashed string
>>container. Indeed it requires ugly conversions between the key type,
>>String, defining the hashing function simply to reuse the
>>Ada.Hash_String, etc. It smells so wrong to me that I'm almost sure
>>I'm missing something obvious here.
> 
> 
> Can't you use "Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Hashed_Maps"?

That's it. I knew I was missing something :( When I looked at the 
package I missed that the Key was unconstrained too.