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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: List container strawman
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The problem with Ada.Containers is that a) it presumes we're going to get it
into the standard and b) it makes it difficult for someone to modify the
source since compilers are free to restrict you from manipulating things
under Ada... (Try declaring Ada.Containers and see if it will compile.)

Probably it is better to have it rooted as its own thing so it can be as
flexible as possible until such time as The Powers That Be decide to
immortalize you by including The Dennison Components into the standard. :-)
It could probably be accommodated at a later date through a bunch of
"renames" things...

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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> Actually, that's a perfectly reasonable discussion to be having. I picked
the
> root name of "Containers" just to have something. If it were part of the
Ada
> standard, I'd like to see "Ada.Containers.*". Otherwise, we'd need a good
root
> name either on top of, or instead of, "Containers".