>>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TC> The overhead is not that it should be a module, but rather,
TC> the sillily/evilly inefficient thing that *you* are doing.
TC> Or trying to do.
Why, For example, I need it as a sorted array 90% of the time. Some of
the time I need/want to add a unique element. So, what do I do, keep
it as an array and sort every time I access it? Keep two copies one as
the hash the other as an array?
TC> We have modules to do this. We have hashes to do this.
TC> We have the technology. It is ignored. Ignorance of
TC> technology is no excuse for adding strange basic types
TC> and operations on them into the very heart of a programming
TC> language.
I'm not ignorant of the technology. But having a method that directly
represents my thought process, and does something that I need would be
a win for me.
Time for another missive in language design of why pop and push,
shift and unshift are in, but union and intersection are not.
<chaim>
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