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: 103376,842accb6a7d76669 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-08 11:44:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!freenix!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!157.161.139.35.MISMATCH!49044084!news.imp.ch!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 1.1 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:30:50 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9semhc$i1k$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3BE301D1.4010106@telepath.com> <9s6d45$bd2$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9s6tq5$i2r$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9sdog7$e5q$1@news.huji.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1005247852 18484 136.170.200.133 (8 Nov 2001 19:30:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Nov 2001 19:30:52 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16089 Date: 2001-11-08T19:30:52+00:00 List-Id: Well, there's some food value in being able to say "Lists work naturally with streams because..." If there is some ability to get it into/out-of a Stream_Element_Array, then the lists play nicely in the same sandbox as streams. But for storage and retrieval from a file, I'd prefer the mechanism to be invisible. Somehow this list goes into the file and somehow when I ask for it back, I get it back. In the middle and unexplained miracle occurs. If I want to put ten lists into the same file - great. They come back properly if I ask for them back in the right order and all is right with the world. Provided there is some storage/retrieval mechanism and there is some ability to have a list work nicely with streams (never know what sort of streams someone may want to build, right?) the way any other language supplied data type would work with streams, then I don't really care what the mechanism is - as long as it doesn't have too many instantiations to get there. :-) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Ehud Lamm" wrote in message news:9sdog7$e5q$1@news.huji.ac.il... > Personally, I don't see why the user should care about streams. The > abstraction here is to provide a way to store and retrieve lists. Let the > package care about the implementation details. >