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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fce663eaf40b52f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Marius Amado Alves" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 23:26:35 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1084314608 43131 212.85.156.195 (11 May 2004 22:30:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:30:08 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 May 2004 22:26:14.0462 (UTC) FILETIME=[F86405E0:01C437A6] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:457 Date: 2004-05-11T23:26:35+01:00 > > it's a good thing the vector isn't named "Unbounded_Array", > > since it's not an unbounded array. (The vector uses an unbounded array > > as a model, in order to describe the semantics of the abstraction, but > > of course that doesn't mean the vector is an unbounded array.) (Heaney) > > Apparently the name "Unbounded_Array" implies for you a particular method of > implementation; probably you think that the "Array" part of this name hints > on that the whole container occupies contiguous chunk of memory (or, perhaps, > several chunks, with many elements of the array in each). But this is just > your personal association, and I don't think that this association is too > widespread. (Kopilovich) FWIW, my perception coincides with Kopilovich's. Hence the title of my ASCL Workshop paper, "Unbounded_Arrays for Unbounded Arrays" (remember, Matt?)