On Sunday 04 May 2003 10:43, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> No.  What you suggested (replace lists with sets, replace arrays with
> maps) would in many places be trading O(1) behavior for O(log n)
> behavior, which certainly doesn't make programs more scalable.

No, it doesn't make sense. It would effectively turn ocaml into an inefficient 
toy language like those "high level languages" that he was talking about.

NO DATA STRUCTURE IS SUITABLE FOR ALL TASKS

Take it from the structure monster,

Cheers,

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