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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: List container strawman
Date: 09 Nov 2001 15:03:39 -0500
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

I vote for having a truly safe list implementation, like this one, if
only for reference. I vote for also having an Unchecked_List package,
so we can use it in higher-level abstractions that add safety in
different ways.

That way, when someone says "why isn't this list package _safe_? I
thought Ada was a _safe_ language!", we can say "look at the safe list
package; it has too much overhead for _this_ use, but it's available
if you want it".

It might also inspire some grad student to make a version with less
overhead, or a compiler optimization that removes the overhead, or
something.

-- 
-- Stephe