Re: List Container Strawman 1.4

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <87lmfsn2jj.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer says...
>
>Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:
>
>> In article <87heqs5awc.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer says...
>>>
>>>   type Element_Array is array (Natural range <>) of Element;
>>>
>>>   function To   (Source : Element_Array) return List;
>>>   function From (Source : List) return Element_Array;
>>>
>>>What about a generic version of To and From which can handle arrays
>>>with different index types?
>>
>> I think the proper way to give that level of flexability would be to
>> make the array itself a generic parameter to the package. In my
>> opinion, that's just one bridge too far.
>
>I agree because in this case, you would have to declare an array type
>to use the list package, which seems inappropriate.  Maybe there
>should be a child package "Array_Conversions" or something like that
>(which is tied to the list, and not the quite generic array conversion
>package suggested by Nick).

Actually, I was thinking along the lines of an Containers.Lists.Fixed package
that works with arrays.

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