No way to retrieve the base of a Set or Map in O(1)

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 18 June 2015 at 21:01, Milan Straka <fox at ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> do you have any use-case where such function is useful? I am having
> troubles imagining one.

In fgl we need to be able to obtain a "random" value for the matchAny
function, which currently uses minView.  I wouldn't mind an O(1)
variant for both both Map and IntMap, but minView works well enough.

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