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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: List Containers - The Road Ahead
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:13:44 +0200
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I found many of the psots about the strawman fasniating. Now we should ttry
to move ahead. Here's my suggestion:

We need some central repository. I hope David will agree to host this on
AdaPower.
The repository will include:
- Specs (we have several alternative, and I think we can keep an open mind.
But let's try to keep the number of variations to a minimum).

- Refernce implementations of the specs. These can be contributes by anyone,
but must adhere to the spec. Trying to provide implementations, is the sure
way of finding mistakes in the specs...

- Test code, that uses the containers. If the specs are useful, it should be
easy enough to take some code you have that uses lists, and make it use
"standard" list package.

That's for lists.
To see how the universal the design can be, can someone propose a
Map/Dictionary Strawman?


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Ehud Lamm   mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il