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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cda33fc7f63c2885 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-08 07:32:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!sfo2-feed1.news.digex.net!intermedia!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: Subject: Re: RE: list strawman Message-ID: <7iE_7.8661$cD4.15714@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:32:19 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:32:19 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18648 Date: 2002-01-08T15:32:19+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.