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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: "Must instantiate controlled types at library level." Why?
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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
 
Hm. First you say,

: Things like availability of class-wide
: programming, MI, MD, interface inheritance, supertyping etc are
: essential for, say, container library.

Then,

: This heavily influences the
: whole design. It is C++'s insufficient ADT which led to STL.

So I guess you have definitions of "container library" and ADT
that are both novel in some respect? Would you mind telling us?


: The major problem is weakness of Ada's ADT. Unfortunately people keep
: on looking in wrong direction. Generics won't help.
 
Then what will help an Abstract Datatype? How?


-- Georg