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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: List container strawman; Construct alternatives
Date: 05 Nov 2001 12:21:31 -0500
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> In article <3BE2DB99.B707D409@boeing.com>, Jeffrey Carter says...
> <snip> 
> >I suggest Make rather than Construct.
> 
> Fair enough. I'm used to seeing "make" in terms of GNU make, but the term
> "Construct" has a fair bit of baggage too. Do we have a second on this motion?

I like "Create". 

However, if you do end up with "type List" being
derived from Controlled, then you do _not_ want "Create" to be a
primitive operation; derived types must have their own "Create". One
good solution is to put the "Create" routines (there are usually more
than one) in a local nested package:

package Containers.Lists is

   type List_Type is ...

   package Creators is
      procedure Create (List : in out List_Type);
      -- Create an empty list

      procedure Create 
         (List    : in out List_Type; 
          Initial : in     Element);

   end Creators;

end Containers.Lists;


Also, I prefer "List_Type" and "Element_Type", for all the reasons in
the recent thread on that topic!

-- 
-- Stephe