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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c8458572136e831 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-09 09:04:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!hub1.nntpserver.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9sdpku$eu2$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9seqos$4qc$1@news.huji.ac.il> <9sf0no$12nebe$2@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9sf48a$ohs$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: List Containers - The Road Ahead Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 12:04:07 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:04:07 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16141 Date: 2001-11-09T17:04:07+00:00 List-Id: In article <9sf48a$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. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.