Re: Common sense...

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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> Although the BCs support some concurrency, I think it's a minefield
> and you'd be better off saying DON'T DO THAT!

I've taken your advice, concurrency is something beyond the scope of Aqua,
leaving concurrency issues to the developer who utilises Aqua in such
situations.

So far I'm 95% way through coding and testing a doubly linked list, the test
code is approaching 1000 lines and generates ~20k of data on the lists and
it's operation, while the list itself consists of 600-800 lines, most of
which is comments.  After that a stack, queue and dequeue will be added
almost immediately (and possibly a singly linked list).  Later I plan to add
support for storage pools (separate ADTs with almost the same interface as
the ADTs lacking storage pool support), bounded lists, stacks, queues,
dequeues and a vector adt.

By October, I also hope to have circular lists (and a binary tree) but there
are no promises.  Unfortunately I may not be able to accept any submissions
of code or patches since I may use these ADTs at University and this might
involve some complications (this is a foggy area, I will check with my uni
to see what the policy is and report back.  Any idea who I should speak to?
Teaching Administrator springs to mind)

Oh sod it, after all how long will it take to knock up a linked list or bst
for uni work, a day or two tops; we got 2-4 weeks in second year (maybe more
in third, depends), so if they don't allow their use, it's no problem I'll
make new ADTs!  If anyone wishes to contribute, please say so and I'll put
the current sources up today or tommorrow.  The code is GMGPL'ed.  It'd be
great if someone could work on the storage pool side as I have little or no
familiarity with them and am only casually aware of them.

I'll be away from Monday to Friday next week, so nothing will get done that
week and things will grind to a halt sometime in August as I have exams.

Regards,
Chris