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In article <tu07apsr9hcp78@corp.supernews.com>, Matthew Heaney says...
>Ada needs as part of its standard library a minimal set of data structures.
>It doesn't have to be as elaborate as the STL.  At a minimum something like
>an STL list, parameterized with an item type that is nonlimited and
>definite.  I wouldn't even miss the algorithm part of the STL -- but we do
>need the data structures.

I certianly don't think we need STL's "vector", as that's essentially just a
bounds-checked array, which Ada already has. (OK, it auto resizes too, but I
don't like that feature anyway).

However, Maps should probably be in there too. That's what caused my last
project to use Booch.

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