Re: Ada Components - GRACE Lists

["Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com>]

"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in message
news:a4bl8h$6v7$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> You know I've said before that I could get behind that - especially if there
> was some agreement on a library forthcoming from the compiler vendors. I'd
> hope that if a handful of them expressed an opinion on the subject that some
> significant number of us would similarly fall in line.

Two of them -- a significant number, really -- have said that they will meet
customer demand.  In effect, that we have to push it to them, not the other way
around.

> Still, the GRACE stuff seemed very well thought out and Ted did a great job
> of putting together the spec. We seemed to have a fair number of people's
> input to it & some modicum of consensus that - if it wasn't exactly loved by
> all - it would cause as little grief as possible for most. Maybe we could
> declare victory on V0.1 (including only Lists), flesh it out and put it on a
> website somewhere? Agree that it should be Public Domain? (GMGPL? Something
> Else?) See if it might gain some use & acceptance? Press on with Maps?

If it happens, great -- I'll support it, and I believe the vendors will too if
enough of us ask for it.  I certainly don't mean this as an "I told you so."
It's just that over the past 22 years I've seen similar efforts start but not
finish.