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 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: 2001-11-13 21:05:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!ppp-1-18.cvx1.telinco.NET!not-for-mail From: "Nick Roberts" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.2 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 04:34:19 -0000 Message-ID: <9ssu2b$150jnq$5@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> References: <3BECA3B7.5020702@telepath.com> <3BF0247D.4500975E@san.rr.com> <5BXH7.22252$xS6.34813@www.newsranger.com> <3BF052D3.ECEF3FF2@san.rr.com> <3bf14919$1@pull.gecm.com> <9srt4e$j46$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ss24b$l8v$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-1-18.cvx1.telinco.net (212.1.136.18) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1005714315 38817530 212.1.136.18 (16 [25716]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16485 Date: 2001-11-14T04:34:19+00:00 List-Id: Well, my proposal uses 'Head' and 'Tail', and other subprogram names, in a way which (I hope!) is as consistent as possible with the Ada.Strings.* packages. Oh, and you forgot about the break-up of Microsoft :-) -- Best wishes, Nick Roberts "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:9ss24b$l8v$1@nh.pace.co.uk... > Fair enough. If we went down the path of doing essentially CAR/CDR to please > the Lisp folks, the Unix guys would come out of the woodwork and want you to > impliment Head and Tail operations that would give you the first/last N > elements. And then the Eiffel guys would be there wanting pre/post > conditions and before you know it, the moon is turning blood red, lions are > having sex with sheep, the Seventh Angel breaks the Seventh Seal, a toy > company makes a tank that folds out into a rain forest and pretty much the > world as we know it comes to a screeching halt. I really hate it when that > happens. :-)