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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community)
Date: 21 Apr 2002 06:46:53 +0100
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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> Another possiblity would be to keep the name simple (Grace.Lists),
> and give the bounded version its own name when/if the time
> comes. Something like "Circular_Lists" (or Booch's "Ring") might be
> a possibility. This concept extends to Maps too, as we could call
> them "Maps" and "Hashes" rather than "Maps.Unbounded" and
> "Maps.Bounded". Not only is this a simpler structure, we no longer
> have the name talking about internal features of the structure
> instead of external features. That could be good enough for
> real-time and embedded folks if we document its use (or lack of use)
> of heap properly.

That seems plain peculiar to me. The BC "Collection" and "Ring" have
quite different semantics because they support different
concepts. Collection.Bounded and Collection.Unbounded are different
because they have different runtime behaviour, but they both have the
same interface! In this respect they map onto Ada.Strings, I think.