Re: RE: list strawman

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <mailman.1010451062.16465.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, Steven Deller
says...
>That seems to me to be a fundamental flaw in the interface.  Yes, I know
>sorting is predefined in the interface, but as there is only ONE sort
>predefined, I'd think users might want to implement their own sort.

The sort used will probably be Quicksort too (yes, I know that's not your
point). 

I should point out two things here:

1) Anyone implementing something so low-level could always us a child package.
2) This is not really the appropriate package to use if sorting is very
important to you. That would be the *.Maps package (unwritten).

>Wouldn't it be useful to add a procedure that takes an iterator and
>returns a new list, with the list where the iterator was pointing now
>truncated to a shorter list?  (That is, it returns two lists, one of
>which is implicitly referred to by the iterator.)

Since we have a "Splice", I can't really sit here and argue that its inverse
function has no business being there. But I'd like to hear a few concurrances
that it needs to be in there before changing things.

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