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,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b27f494a96e0530 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A community Windows binding Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 01:38:57 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <41664D4E.7040405@netcabo.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1097271522 6453 212.85.156.195 (8 Oct 2004 21:38:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:38:42 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <41664D4E.7040405@netcabo.pt>; from Marius Amado Alves at Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:18:22 +0100 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (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: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4937 Date: 2004-10-09T01:38:57+04:00 Marius Amado Alves wrote: > > Also, full-scale windowing library always use containers rather heavily. > > But reading all discussions on AI-302 (Container Library) I never seen a sign > > of recognition of this need. > >What do you mean. I meant only that there are no grounds for making a windowing library "Ada-centric" in this significant respect. I certainly did not mean that containers needed for a windowing library can't be provided in Ada (with or without Standard Container Library). All that is really necessary for providing tolerable containers for a windowing library is class-wide access type, and Ada has it. Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia