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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a644fa9cd1a3869a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-10 13:23:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!ppp-1-162.cvx2.telinco.NET!not-for-mail From: "Nick Roberts" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: List container: Insert and Delete Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 21:20:29 -0000 Message-ID: <9sk5rq$140qdr$3@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> References: <3BECA3B7.5020702@telepath.com> <9sjf4n$odm$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9sjkc7$145mhb$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <_edH7.20119$xS6.32495@www.newsranger.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-1-162.cvx2.telinco.net (212.1.140.162) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1005427386 37775803 212.1.140.162 (16 [25716]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16247 Date: 2001-11-10T21:20:29+00:00 List-Id: "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:_edH7.20119$xS6.32495@www.newsranger.com... > I'd prefer a good explanation in English. I honestly couldn't follow your code. I've posted what I hope is an explanation in another thread. > Perhaps I'm just being dense (more than a small possiblity, my wife would > probably say), but I couldn't see what you were getting at at all. LOL Really, I think it was my code that was dense. I hope my exposition will be illuminating. Furthermore, I'm being very clumsy in saying the list type should not have insertion or deletion: on the contrary, it should, but not based on any iterator position, rather on a notional positional index (of type Positive), exactly like Ada's Unbounded_Strings. I'm putting together an alternative proposal (two package specs to start off with), which I'll e-mail to you, Ted, if you don't object, for posting on your splendid site. Did I ever send you a copy of my 1999 proposal to the ASCL group? -- Best wishes, Nick Roberts