Re: status of Ada STL?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote in message ...
>To be cynical about it, the last time there was an effort in this area,
>nobody "official" popped up with tons of enthusiasm to declare
something to
>be the right answer. To be hopeful about it, at least I've seen
comments in
>Ada Letters and elsewhere that seem to indicate that there is some
official
>recognition of the need to have *some* kind of library(ies).

There is an open AI for container libraries for Ada 200Y. The problem
is, everyone is willing to write an interesting library, but there is
much less enthusism for the hard work it takes to make something
suitable for standardization. (Compare the documentation for the typical
library with the RM for Ada.Strings.Fixed, and you'll see what I mean).
Then, compound that with getting everyone to agree on the requirements
and the solution...

>Ada needs some mechanism for defining "Official"
>responses to users needs that takes something less than ten years to
react.

That is being studied. Of course, the study may take the ten years. :-)

>Maybe I just need more coffee this morning. :-)


Yes, I think so. :-)

          Randy Brukardt