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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.1
Date: 13 Nov 2001 11:55:29 -0500
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> It does rather go against the grain of the BCs, IMO, but I could add
> this (which does everything bar closed iteration). "Collection" is
> what everyone has been calling "List", BTW.  Almost all the operations
> could in fact be omitted in this package, because they are inherited,
> though one would have to "use" it to get at them easily and I suspect
> pedagogically one would prefer to see the operations. Just treat it as
> implementation inheritance.

Excellent. I think this puts the matter to rest!

Now I _really_ have to see if I can do this for SAL :), and we can get
back to arguing about what the correct complex container structure is,
instead of what the correct simple container structure is :).

> <code snipped>

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-- Stephe