From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-29 22:04:31 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pogner.demon.co.uk!zap!not-for-mail
From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Grace and Maps (was Re: Development process in the Ada community)
Date: 30 Apr 2002 05:49:31 +0100
Organization: Pushface
Message-ID: <x7vsn5d23l0.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>
References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de>
 <4519e058.0204180800.44fac012@posting.google.com> <3CBF0341.8020406@mail.com>
 <a9n0tk$6fs$1@nh.pace.co.uk>
 <4519e058.0204190529.559a47ae@posting.google.com>
 <a9p98h$8hn$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3CC1C6B3.6060306@telepath.com>
 <3CC21747.5000501@telepath.com> <3CC59ED2.1000803@home.com>
 <uadrunsuq.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov> <3CC5B286.6FE61551@san.rr.com>
 <uznzumd1p.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov> <3CC5B9EE.32F3060@san.rr.com>
 <uhem1m47l.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov> <aa6ots$hpn$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <aa8ssi$qjr$1
 <3CCD6197.9070905@mail.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1020142995 nnrp-14:13682 NO-IDENT
 pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Apr 2002 04:49:31 GMT
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23255
Date: 2002-04-30T04:49:31+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Marin David Condic wrote:
> > some means of making the data persistent
> 
> Why? What does persistence have to do with maps?
> Besides, doesn't Ada already have serialization
> for this kind of thing?

Serialization (support of Ada.Streams) is only supported out of the
box for some types; not sure of the full details, but things
referenced by pointers are not included. So any unbounded container
will need some work.