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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e382b50ddc696050 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-10 09:12:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!hub1.nntpserver.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3C0DB9D0.7184868A@acm.org> <3C0EB851.77E7172A@boeing.com> <3C0FAF78.6F006DF7@boeing.com> <9v2ldc$m67$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: List Strawman JC01 Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:12:03 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:12:03 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17689 Date: 2001-12-10T17:12:03+00:00 List-Id: In article <9v2ldc$m67$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... >To stick with a more Ada flavor: use of 'First and 'Last consistency is >good - as would be imitating Ada.Strings and having "type Direction is >(Forward, Backward);" (implying a 'Front and 'Back - of sorts). I'd >personally vote for a Front and Back as this would be consistent with what I >have usually seen with double-ended lists & could be made consistent with >Ada.Strings. Well, again that would only be consistent with arrays, which have an ordering defined. If there was a possibility of this becoming a built-in type, where 'First and 'Last might actually be made to apply, then I'd find this a convincing argument for conveience sake. But as it is, I'd prefer to stick to a a more neutral naming. The current package uses "type Direction" for accessing the ends, so there is no issue of using different names for that purpose unless you also want to quit doing things this way. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.