Re: Container reqs

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

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? 

People have made the same complaint about my library. But that
complexity is simply a reflection of the complexity that Ada supports.
I don't see a simple alternative that is not so restrictive as to be
useless. Well, you could maintain several copies of the code, each
accepting slightly different generic formal types. But _I'm_ not going
to do that!

Life isn't simple, as well as not being fair!

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-- Stephe