Re: Missing features in Ada.Containers

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

Martin Dowie wrote:
>>Another bizarre (I suppose it was discussed in the mettings) novelty
>>(but really of minor relevance as I see it) is that the "sorted maps"
>>functionality is now a child package of the "sorted sets". Not only
>>this requires now two instantiations to get a "sorted map" but it
>>imposes the use of a "sorted set" even if you don't want one?
> 
> 
> Matt is working on wording to not just have "ordered set" and "hashed map"
> but also "ordered map" and "hashed set" in the AI. It is very hard to
> include /every/(!) possible container type into the standard without the
> size of the standard exploding to the point that most of it is taken up with
> container libraries!

Great. I was somewhat more surprised because Charles already had them. 
Of course, if all combinations were to be provided there are a lot of 
them.  Multiply times two if you want to provide protected versions...

> Hopefully, we can get an IWA for expanding the Ada.Container.* packages in
> an orderly fashion...