Re: generic container library

["Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>]

"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message 
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> There were three excellent articles in the most recent issue of "Ada 
> Letters" that covered libraries. I don't recall that any of the articles 
> mentioned if the container libraries of interest provided for persistence 
> (some ability to write & read the containers to/from a file or stream). I 
> consider that a pretty critical feature, so you might want to consider 
> that in selecting one for your future projects. Even a library that is a 
> little weaker in some other regard would score big points with me so long 
> as I don't have to figure out how to load and store the data between 
> program runs. Especially if I can make containers of containers of 
> containers and get the whole ball of wax stored in a file. (See the 'Read 
> and 'Write and related attributes of streams - its really pretty cool.)

I don't think I implemented the stream attributes for Charles, but it 
wouldn't be hard to do that.  Let me know which containers you need, and 
I'll give those priority.  See the charles-*.ad[sb] files in:

http://charles.tigris.org/source/browse/charles/src/

Note that the AI-302 containers are required to support streaming, and so 
the reference implementation has already implemented the streaming 
attributes.  See the a-c*.ad[sb] files in:

http://charles.tigris.org/source/browse/charles/src/ai302/

In either case, that means you can have a container of containers, and 
streaming it out will do the right thing,