On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:59:24PM -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> 	Also, is there a particular reason Map is so, um, inaccessible to 
> beginners?  Hashtbl's generic interface is much more inviting than 
> Map's functorial-only interface, especially to those not terribly 
> familiar with the module system.

Map depends on keys to be ordered. This in turn requires to allow for a
user-defined order: assume sets as keys that are implemented by
unordered lists. Different lists can represent the same set. Hence, it
must be possible to provide a user-defined order that would treat those
lists as equal. The functor argument of Map contains the compare() which
does just that.

-- Christian

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