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: 103376,842accb6a7d76669 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-13 13:05:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pogner.demon.co.uk!zap!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: List container strawman 1.1 Date: 13 Nov 2001 07:06:21 +0000 Organization: Pushface Message-ID: References: <3BE301D1.4010106@telepath.com> <3BE7DA00.8020807@acm.org> <9sdojl$e6h$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3BEACA5A.9030100@acm.org> <20TG7.18929$xS6.30469@www.newsranger.com> <9sh49o$ohc$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9sopjj$bar$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1005685481 nnrp-14:20493 NO-IDENT pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Nov 2001 07:06:21 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16450 Date: 2001-11-13T07:06:21+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" writes: > My impression from what I can see is that the BC's are a kind of > "Theoretically Pure" thing - an academic distilation of all the > fundamental behaviors and functionalities needed by a variety of > data structures of different shapes. Hmm, I wouldn't go as far as that :-) There's a lot of stuff that a purist wouldn't have put in there: would you normally expect to be able to sort a Deque? access its 5th member? etc