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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.1
Date: 11 Nov 2001 22:33:45 +0100
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Simon Wright writes:
> "Ehud Lamm" writes:
>
> > Personally, I don't see why the user should care about streams. The
> > abstraction here is to provide a way to store and retrieve
> > lists. Let the package care about the implementation details.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to be able to send lists over a network
> connection? supporting streams allows this at extremely low cost
> (well, when you get GNAT.Sockets generally available, I don't know
> about AdaAockets)
Or across partitions when building distributed programs.
Pascal.
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