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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce0900b60ca3f616 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-02 07:00:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: List container strawman Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:49:57 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9rubqc$i1u$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1004712588 18494 136.170.200.133 (2 Nov 2001 14:49:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Nov 2001 14:49:48 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15640 Date: 2001-11-02T14:49:48+00:00 List-Id: I just took a quick look at it & I think it would be workable. It has simplicity on its side. Without having thought about it for any real length of time I don't see anything major missing, but perhaps there might be some desirable operations to be added. For example, I think it ought to have a "Load/Store" operation to get/put the contents to a file using Streams. ("You give me a file name string and a list & I handle the I/O") It would be handy to have 'Input and 'Output working on it as well so you could get it in and out of a Stream_Element_Array. Also, I think it would be wise to have this (and any other packages) rooted at some common package with a name like "ASCL" just to make the whole thing identifiable as a conglomerate. (But that would be arguing about names and I promised I would not do that! :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:kPoE7.9567$xS6.13287@www.newsranger.com... > Since we do seem to be reaching a small amount of agreement on details, I went > ahead a put together a strawman package spec (sans private part) for the > unbounded list container, for the purposes of keeping the dicussions rolling in > a postitive direction. It is attached here, and available on my website at > http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/Containers-Lists-Unbounded.ads.html . If it > is close enough to be worth persuing, we may be able to use it as a starting > point. > > (Note: The htmlization there was done by a tool I'm developing as part of the > next release of OpenToken. If you have comments on the job it did, I'd like them > too, but email would probably be the best venue for it). > > --- > 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.