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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community)
Date: 30 Apr 2002 07:05:54 -0700
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message news:<x7vsn5d23l0.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>...
> Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> 
> > Besides, doesn't Ada already have serialization
> > for this kind of thing?
> 
> Serialization (support of Ada.Streams) is only supported out of the
> box for some types; not sure of the full details, but things
> referenced by pointers are not included. So any unbounded container
> will need some work.

Its supported out of the box for all types, but for some (eg:
pointers) it doesn't work so well. (Actually, it works just fine for
pointers too, as long as the program continues to run. :-)  ).

Yes, a container will need some work to make it do the "right thing"
for a stream read or write. I don't see any reason why that work
should not be done. I believe that what we had the Lists package do.


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