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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:32:28 -0400
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The spec for the Lists certainly defines some stream operations that
provides for a solution to persistence as well as communication. Maps ought
to do the same. Personally, I think it would be handy to have a couple of
subprograms to explicitly load & store the structure from/to a stream file,
for the sake of simplicity. Some version of: "Here, I figured out a file for
you and went and opened it already - you go put/get your data to/from it and
I don't want to know how you did it..." But maybe that's just me... :-)

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> Yes, a container will need some work to make it do the "right thing"
> for a stream read or write. I don't see any reason why that work
> should not be done. I believe that what we had the Lists package do.
>
>