From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71c743c03ed191fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-03 05:32:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!guinness.news.atl.earthlink.net!news.atl.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginer problem: variable array size Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:31:45 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b4.8c X-Server-Date: 3 Oct 2002 12:32:37 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29486 Date: 2002-10-03T12:32:37+00:00 List-Id: That might be a reasonable answer short-term, but long range, if you ask folks to go read a book on STL, the attitude might become: "If I've got to learn STL first in order to use this library then why not just use STL and save myself the extra trouble?" This, by the way, is the same problem people have when we Ada-philes suggest "Oh, but you can always bind to that C library...." Its extra work and extra problems that the end user just doesn't want to own. I'm sure you've got a fine library here and I'm suggesting that if you take some time to write even a cursory user's manual, that will help make it its own thing rather than a "me too" venture. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ====================================================================== Matthew Heaney wrote in message news:upmjlen322hcd@corp.supernews.com... > > Any book on the STL will do. Try > > STL Tutorial and Reference, 2nd ed > Musser, Derge, Saini > > Or you could just go to the SGI website: > > http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ > > > > >