Re: status of Ada STL?

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Its an admirable effort. The question would be "Will everyone agree that
this is now The Ada Answer?" or is it going to be one more among many
available container libraries? Maybe I'm just cynical about it. :-) We've
got lots of libraries. We've got libraries coming out of our ears. We've got
libraries of every conceivable flavor, color or design philosophy. What we
need is to get some semi-official recognition of ONE library (for at least
the given problem domain of containers - other libraries for things like
math, etc are also good ideas) that will be what Ada provides as the default
product with all conforming compilers.

To be cynical about it, the last time there was an effort in this area,
nobody "official" popped up with tons of enthusiasm to declare something to
be the right answer. To be hopeful about it, at least I've seen comments in
Ada Letters and elsewhere that seem to indicate that there is some official
recognition of the need to have *some* kind of library(ies). To go back to
being cynical, I imagine it will take another 10 years before we see any
usable response to the problem, by which time C++++ will have included some
kind of mind-reading compiler functionality to include the "Do What I Mean"
instruction set. :-) Ada needs some mechanism for defining "Official"
responses to users needs that takes something less than ten years to react.

Maybe I just need more coffee this morning. :-)

MDC
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Matthew Heaney <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
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> I have written a library, called Charles, modeled on the C++ STL, which
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> all the container types in that library (vectors, deques, lists, sets,
> multisets, maps, and multimaps).
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~matthewjheaney/charles-20020918.zip
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> Both active and passive iteration is supported.
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