Re: Queue

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

I'm in favor of any approach that gets a concensus going about what to
select as a component library for Ada. The danger here is debating the issue
for too long and ending up with *no* component library as a result.

AFAIK, there have been a handful of proposed directions - such as BC's+mods,
PragmAda+mods, Ted's list package strawman, etc. So far, there seems to be
some motion in the direction of building something from scratch based on
Ted's strawman. It seems that this was getting bogged down in a variety of
debates about iterators, sorts, library-level instantiations, etc. I don't
know if we want to take some kind of vote on it or not - but it seems like
it could be a viable direction if we can keep it from getting stalled. I
could get behind Ted's package and would be willing to help get it
implemented if needed - maybe others would do so as well?

Or are there still strong feelings about wanting to make fundamental changes
to Ted's strawman that would preclude using it as-is for a start?
(Superficial changes that can be added or tweaked later are O.K. in my
mind - is the spec good enough that if it were implemented, we'd have an
acceptable approach that might get extended/enhanced at a later point?) Or
is there still some interest in debating alternative approaches?

MDC
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"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote in message
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>
> I think this is what I suggested a while back, but I am not sure this is
> what you advocate, if I understand the rest of your message. Are you in
> favor of this approach?
>