Re: List Containers - The Road Ahead

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9sf48a$ohs$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>
>I won't speak for Ted, but he has already expressed a desire that his name
>not become the identifier for the collection.

That's pretty much the case. If the library was entirely my doing, expressing my
personal concept of the ultimate whaterver, I would consider it. However, its
not. What we have right now is what I consider to be the synthesis of the
requirements the community has, as expressed here in c.l.a., for a
general-purpose list package. For all I know, someone could pop in here tomorrow
with a better synthesis, and then it would be truly silly to have my name
attached to it. 

>I see nothing wrong with using something like Ada Standard Component Library
>(ASCL). Root everything at an empty package called ASCL and you can easily
>identify where this stuff comes from.

To offer a lame objection: I don't think ASCL is "clever" enough. I couldn't
really think of a good clever name off the top of my head either though. One of
the reasons I picked "Containers" was that I thought it might be so annoyingly
bland that it would provoke this discussion. :-)

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