Containers and strictness

[Duncan Coutts]

On 24 June 2010 11:14, Milan Straka <fox at ucw.cz> wrote:

> I need some opinion:
>
> - Do you think methods like insert/lookup/delete/etc should be strict in
>  key/element?
>
>  As Claus wrote, right now it is undocumented and inconsistent (both in
>  the methods of one container and also in the same methods of different
>  container).

Just as it is sometimes important to be able to do strict inserts, it
is important sometimes that we have maps that are lazy in the
elements. There are important use cases both ways.

So yes we should have some kind of consistent convention. We could do
worse than the naming convention where the strict versions use a
trailing prime ' character.

Duncan