Re: List container strawman 1.1

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Just to toss in one more bit of feature-creep:

procedure Load (
    File    : in out Ada.Streams.Stream_IO.File_Type ;
    Subject : out List) ;

procedure Store (
    File    : in out Ada.Streams.Stream_IO.File_Type ;
    Subject : in List) ;


I'm presuming that the user can handle file management and keep track of
which list(s) they have put into the stream file and in what order.
(Dangerous, but so is life in general...) Under it lies some version of
'Input and 'Output to the stream file.

It might similarly have some advantage to have something like:

procedure Put (
    Subject  : in     List
    Bytes    :    out Ada.Streams.Stream_Element_Array) ;

procedure Get (
    Subject  :    out List
    Bytes    : in     Ada.Streams.Stream_Element_Array) ;

However, you can kind of roll-your-own from what you've already provided.
I'd see it as convenience and simplicity to have the above.

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> I have a new version of the strawman up at my website at
> http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/Containers-Lists-Unbounded.ads.html
> . This version has the cascading style sheet too, so hopefully nearly
> everyone should be able to read it.