From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Containers - nontrivial element access
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:59:16 +0200
Date: 2007-10-14T06:59:16+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ygelka6i95n.fsf@hugsarin.dmusyd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc8x69799x.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
Robert A Duff wrote:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> writes:
>> Robert A Duff wrote:
>> What is the reason that vectors (and trees and linked lists) aren't
>> built in, while arrays are?
>
> Building things in tends to make a language much more complicated.
Yes.
> I'd say too many things are built in to Ada already.
I am not sure I agree (but I haven't tried to create an Ada compiler).
> Also, there is an open-ended list of things like vectors.
Yes. But why do we stop at arrays, instead of at binary trees or
doubly linked lists?
Greetings,
Jacob
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 21:55 Containers - nontrivial element access Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-01 23:52 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-10-02 16:40 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-02 23:16 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-10-02 20:47 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-02 23:23 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-10-02 0:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-02 16:44 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03 0:20 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-03 19:40 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-03 19:56 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03 20:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-03 22:37 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-04 8:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-03 22:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-04 0:16 ` Robert A Duff
2007-10-07 8:41 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-10-11 19:15 ` Robert A Duff
2007-10-14 4:59 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2007-10-14 7:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-14 13:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-10-14 15:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-02 20:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-03 0:22 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-03 8:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-03 18:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-10-03 19:09 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03 19:15 ` Simon Wright
2007-10-03 19:48 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-03 19:58 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03 19:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-02 2:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-10-02 16:47 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-02 7:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-10-02 16:37 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-02 21:02 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-02 22:20 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-03 19:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-10-03 22:55 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-04 0:22 ` Robert A Duff
2007-10-04 13:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-10-04 14:01 ` Matthew Heaney
2007-10-04 21:58 ` Matthew Heaney
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