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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88093378be1184d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-09 08:52:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!easynews!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sea-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: List Container Straw Man In-Reply-To: <9sh082$bp0$1@news.huji.ac.il> Message-ID: References: <9s941p$11mrei$4@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9s99tt$pdb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9s9s8p$11vt7l$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9scke9$12jb14$4@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9sh082$bp0$1@news.huji.ac.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:52:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.220.65.223 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sea-read.news.verio.net 1005324761 192.220.65.223 (Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:52:41 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:52:41 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16140 Date: 2001-11-09T16:52:41+00:00 List-Id: 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