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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f2690a5e963b61b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GCC 4.0 Ada.Containers Cursor danger. References: <1120474891.635131.216700@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1120575076.876798.108220@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1120583470.429264.325450@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <3goze.305$dU3.190@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:32:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.86.17.69 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1121023959 209.86.17.69 (Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:32:39 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:32:39 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11985 Date: 2005-07-10T19:32:39+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Jeffrey Carter" wrote in message > news:3goze.305$dU3.190@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > >>Is that like the scheme used by the PragmARC lists? Each list has a >>unique ID, each node contains the ID of the list it's in, and each >>Position has the ID of the list it's a Position for. All three IDs must >>match for an operation to be valid. On deletion, the ID in the node and >>in the Position are made invalid. It won't catch everything, but it >>catches most errors. > > Sounds like it. Hope it isn't patented. :-) Well, of course it is. It's not like it's an obvious idea that anyone could come up with. Besides, if it were obvious, the Patent Office would never grant a patent for it, right? :) Don't worry. I'm sure PragmAda grant RR a license to its non-patent for very reasonable terms. -- Jeff Carter "Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!" Dr. Strangelove 33