Re: List Container Straw Man

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net>]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Ehud Lamm wrote:
> Since we seem to be discussing various Ada features...
> I was always ready to defend Ada's lack of automatic instnatiation, but I
> seem to be loosing me resovle.

This is kind of funny. A few years ago I tried writing an STL like library
in Ada, just expanding the original RPI version. By the end of the whole
exercise I was convinced that automatic instantiation of some kind would 
really be a big improvement. 

> Maybe some one can re-convince me ;-)

Sure, you can defend it. Hysterical raisins. You can also defend the
gruesome syntax of C++ the same way :-).

-- Brian