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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: list strawman
Date: 08 Jan 2002 16:21:20 -0500
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> In article <mailman.1010519822.5637.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, Steven Deller
> says...
> <snip> 
> >From my "usability" view, the interface now has 3 flaws:
> >  1. No "split" list into two lists
> Again: this can be taken care of, if there is support for it.

I vote for adding 'split'; it nicely compliments 'splice'.

> >  2. No "compare iterators" (at least not that I recall)
> Its there, it just hasn't been very well advertised.

We need to add a explicit visible "=" to make it do what you want; in
my implementation, the default "=" does not.

-- 
-- Stephe