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Announce: xsetxmap, unfunctorized, Sexp-lib aware versions of Set and Map
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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Berke Durak <berke.durak@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Announce: xsetxmap, unfunctorized, Sexp-lib aware versions of Set and Map |
Yes you are right, I should have put a warning. These modules are for peculiar cases. So here it is: WARNING: The default comparison function is not sound for non-canonical datastructures such as Sets and Maps. Xset is not canonical. Do not use Xsets or Xmap without providing the correct comparison function. You must always pass the same comparison function. (That's why I was asking if there was a Set/Map structure with canonical representation the other day.) Extlib provides a version where the comparison function for the keys is stored in the map. But I chose to not do this for some peculiar reasons. - I'm serializing Xmap and Xsets using Marshal, and I don't want to have functions in the structure - I don't like the overhead of a wrapper structure and I don't want to complicate the API -- Berke Durak