List Container Straw Man (NJR V5R1)

["Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk>]

I hope people have been having a look at my list container proposal at:

http://www.adaos.ukf.net

I've read some of the comments in the 'Queue' thread, which are encouraging.
Some thoughts do indeed occur:

(1) all the absolute (index-based) operations could go into a child package
SCL.Lists.[Unb|B]ounded.Absolute (allowing the Absolute_ prefixes to be
dropped);

(2) all the cursor declarations and cursor-based operations could go into a
child package SCL.Lists.[Unb|B]ounded.Cursors;

(3) instead of having numbered cursors inside the list object, it would be
possible to provide a separate cursor type, objects of which would be
attached to a specific list object by an Open procedure (and detached by a
Close).

Are these refinements attractive?

I shall ask David Botton if he would kindly host my proposals (and those of
anyone else who wishes) on www.adapower.com/labs or www.adapower.net (which
would be more appropriate?). Shall we stick with the project name 'ASCL' (at
least for the time being)?

All comments welcome!

I am willing to put in a fair bit of personal effort to developing a basic
set of containers (since they'll be so useful in AdaOS), including producing
documentation and sample implementations.

I think the recent discussion has proved that it would be far, far better
for the design to have input from a diverse set of Ada users than to be a
product of just my own mind, floating about as it does in a little world of
its own most of the time.

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Best wishes,
Nick Roberts