Re: List Sorting

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
news:OOKdnbsVtdt6O5fc4p2dnA@megapath.net...
> "Papa Hemingway" <DaddyH@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:9RqOc.29970$Vp1.466542@weber.videotron.net...
> > Hello.  Does anyone have any examples of this -- maintaining the list
> order
> > directly without using search algorithms afterwards?  I'm looking to add
> RECORD
> > items to a list and maintain the latter ORDERED.
>
> This sounds like a homework problem. We don't do people's homework for
them.
>
> If it's not a homework problem, you should explain in a bit more detail
what
> it is that you're trying to do. Without that information, all I can do is
> suggest that you don't worry about it and use a container to do the dirty
> work, like the Sorted_Sets container that will be part of Ada 200Y. (There
> is a reference implementation available at
>    http://charles.tigris.org/source/browse/charles/src/ai302/

You'll need an Ada0Y compiler to use that version and I don't know of many
of those kicking around yet! :-)

If you email me direct, I can supply you with an Ada95 version of this
package. Or, if you can wait, it'll get put up on my web site sometime this
weekend hopefully.

Cheers

-- Martin