Re: List Container Strawman 1.4

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <a001n2$kbt$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
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>"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>> A point of order: The ACL would actually replace the "Containers" part.
>> "Containers" was my placeholder root name.
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>That kind of presumes that the only thing this library of stuff will ever
>have in it is containers. What if some other collection of packages or
>classes gets identified as useful? (I have my favorites, but even without
>them, I'd still see some desirability to enable future expansion.)

Personally I think this effort should be restricted to containers, so that
everything is logically related. If it is successful, then perhaps we can
perform a similar effort for other useful stuff like GUI's. While it might just
be possible to get a container facility in the next Ada standard, I don't think
we'd have much chance if it were combined with something as contraversial as a
GUI. At best, the namespace would have to be rearranged. We might as well just
not put unrelated stuff together in the first place.

>"Components" need not all be "Containers". Maybe we could lose the whole
>"Containers" part and make a flatter tree? Something like
>ACL.Lists.Unbounded?

Yes, that's what I was talking about (minus the adding of unrelated stuff, of
course).

>It could also be over-used - Access Control Lists? I like it for being

I keep thinking "Anterior Cruia Ligament"(sp?), which is a really nasty sports
injury.

>One of my compatriots in another existence liked to name all the company
>laptops and computers after Tequilas. Trademark infringements aside, I'd go
>for that. Especially when it came time to do some "research" to find a name
>for a new machine. :-)

If we make it scotch instead, we could start with Dewar. :-)

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