Re: List Container Strawman 1.4

["Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk>]

"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
message news:a0004p$jnc$1@nh.pace.co.uk...

> ...
> This might be more of an embedded thing than a workstation-app thing. I
know
> that in my current domain, the OS may request the app minimize itself to
> gain back storage needed for some other app. Here, you want to be able to
> say "Hey, here's this collection of stuff I was saving, but I suppose I
> could go reload it when I need it, so here you go - have my storage and
I'll
> get it back later..."

I think it's called virtual memory ;-)

> An alternative might be to define a constant called Null_List that could
be
> assigned to a List and force it to get cleared out. This is not unlike
> Null_Unbounded_String and would be keeping in the flavor of mirroring
> Ada.Strings.Unbounded wherever possible.

You mean, exactly like my proposal provides? (The Clear procedure and
Null_List function, to be specific. Has anyone actually *looked* at my
proposal? :-)

Does anyone object if I rename the ASCL project on AdaPower.net to "Tenet",
and use 'Tenet' as the root package name for a hierarchy of packages based
on my own proposal?

Understood that people are especially busy this time of year (myself
included). Over the holiday period I'll try to produce: a (more) complete
specification, that includes sets, associative arrays, and maybe other
stuff; documentation for these; sample implementations. Maybe someone will
find it useful.

My ulterior motive has always been to produce a utility base for AdaOS (and
Tenet will therefore be aimed specifically at that). Maybe this objective
has always been a bit (too) different to what other people are aiming for.
There can always be room for cross-fertilisation.

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Best wishes,
Nick Roberts