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,a644fa9cd1a3869a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-12 11:58:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!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: <3BECA3B7.5020702@telepath.com> <3bef920f@pull.gecm.com> <9soq34$be6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3bf013e4$1@pull.gecm.com> Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.2 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, 12 Nov 2001 14:58:39 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:58:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16363 Date: 2001-11-12T19:58:39+00:00 List-Id: In article <3bf013e4$1@pull.gecm.com>, Martin Dowie says... > >Why 'after a sort'? The point would be to not let anyone insert duplicates >in the first place! That could be done too. Its just particularly easy to do after a sort, as you don't have to look through the entire list. --- 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.