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From: Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: OO Style with Ada Containers
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:03:58 +0000
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braver <deliverable@gmail.com> writes:

> -- but this is all very not-warm-and-fuzzy... How do you make the
> usage of Ada Containers less verbose?

As was pointed out, the container types are tagged, which means you can use
distinguished-receiver syntax.

Cursor types are not tagged, mostly because an operation cannot be primitive
for more than a single tagged type; the container type is already tagged, so
that means the cursor type cannot also be tagged (since they appear together as
parameters in several operations).