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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.1
Date: 10 Nov 2001 18:15:13 +0000
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"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> writes:

> Personally, I don't see why the user should care about streams. The
> abstraction here is to provide a way to store and retrieve
> lists. Let the package care about the implementation details.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to send lists over a network
connection? supporting streams allows this at extremely low cost
(well, when you get GNAT.Sockets generally available, I don't know
about AdaAockets)