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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: List container: Insert and Delete
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:43:33 +0200
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John English <je@brighton.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Ehud Lamm wrote:
> >
> >
> > I agree with this sentiment. So why not take the lead and tell us why
you
> > didn't use the BC in your book...?
>
> Uh, because I wanted to explain the internal mechanics in the book.
> It's not reinventing the wheel; it's just building a wheel with a bunch
> of students watching, and you saying "look, this bit goes here..." :-)
>

But I guess you made some design decisions which resulted in something
different from the BC (either the -83 or -95 version).

I tried to give a list of goals awhile back. I decided it is nicer to list
requirements/goal instead of problems with this library or other. But I
guess most goals can be traced back to problems with using existing
libraries.

However, for the record, I prefer having a standard library which I don't
particularly like to having no standard container library at all.

Ehud