Re: design changes per Ada 2005/12?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Lucretia" <Lucretia9000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
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>P.S: The containers should've used interfaces!

We tried that with the new Queue containers, and IMHO it is a disaster. You 
have to use an extra instantiation and extra formal parameters for a feature 
that you are not going to use on 90% of the programs. (Typically, you only 
use one kind of queue in a program.)

The introduction of the interfaces also forced a horrible structure which 
requires the implementation to declare all of its internal data structures 
in a *visible* nested package. (This is partially the fault of protected 
types, which don't allow nested types for good reasons -- but if we didn't 
have the interface we could hide the protected type in the private part.)

Some of this could be fixed with substantial violence to the Ada visibility 
and implementation models, but it is not clear that what you would end up 
with be Ada. Not likely to happen, and surely not before Ada 2020.

                                   Randy.