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,c38ff5179fcc82d9,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-02 07:37:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison Subject: List Contailer Status as of 1/2/2 Message-ID: <8PFY7.593$cD4.550@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: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:37:40 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 15:37:40 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18451 Date: 2002-01-02T15:37:40+00:00 List-Id: Since folks are probably starting to straggle back in from vacation, so I thought I ought drop a quick note on where we are with the List Container effort. o We have achieved consensus on the major features and approaches for the "unbounded lists" package. There may still be some minor quibbles about missing routines or badly named objects, but that was not judged serious enough to hold up work on implementations. The package spec under question (aka: Strawman 1.4) can be viewed at http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/Containers-Lists-Unbounded.ads.html . o Based on the above, work has begun on implementations. Someone (sorry, I forget who) has offered to make an implementation based on an existing component library. I'm working on one from scratch. Right now, I have every routine in the spec code up to "Modify". I have them all tested up through the non-iterator based "Remove" routine. That includes a test harness which I plan to release with the body implementation. The test-harness is black-box, so it ought to be usable by anyone building their own implementation. o There has been some discussion of naming the facility "Grace", both as an acronum for "Generic Reusable Ada Container Environment", and in honor of Grace Hopper. I'm tentatively using that name because I have to use something, but I don't think we have consensus on it yet. If needed, I'll post another update next Monday, when presumably just about everyone will be back. Hopefully by then we'll have a full implementation to work with. --- 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.