Re: List Container Straw Man

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9sdnng$djs$1@news.huji.ac.il>, Ehud Lamm says...
>One specific issue, is that the working by extending tagged types naturally
>leads to using child packages. Most will be generic if, like me, you prefer
>Element_Type to be generic.
>This leads to the nasty issues of nested instantations, which are quite hard
>to hide from the programmer using the packages, unless I am missing
>something.

I don't see a way out of it either. The implication here is that you can have
one of:

o  Simple instantiation.
o  Tagged containers and/or container child packages.

You *cannot* have both. Therefore I'd say at this point that either we have to
admit that Booch's (and other's) implementations aren't really so unacceptable,
or we have to agree to stick with designs that don't use tagged containers and
child packages. To some this may have been obvious, but bringing issues like
this out into the open was one of the reasons for presenting the strawman.

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