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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Container reqs
Date: 21 Oct 2001 14:24:41 -0400
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Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> Stephen Leake wrote:
> > 
> > Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Ehud Lamm wrote:
> > > > <snip>
> > > > What I dodn't like is the need for several, possibly nested, instantiations
> > > > simply to get a simple queue or hash table.
> > >
> > > I wholeheartedly agree. Wright's posting here a few days ago of the
> > > sequence of instantiations needed to obtain a simple structure with the
> > > Booch components clearly indicates that they fail this requirement.
> > 
> > This is easy to say. But can you provide an alternative, that still
> > allows the container to handle all reasonable Ada types?
> 
> I refer you to the PragmAda Reusable Components as an example of a
> component library that provides single instantiations for simple
> structures that handle all reasonable Ada types.
> 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~jrcarter010/pragmarc.htm

Ok, I'll take a look at it.


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-- Stephe