Expand the Data.Set API
Herbert Valerio Riedel
hvr at gnu.org
Fri Mar 6 11:43:57 UTC 2015
On 2015-03-05 at 23:59:23 +0100, David Feuer wrote:
> There are a few rather conspicuously missing features:
[...]
> 2. A way to insert an element if an == one is not already present
> (insert replaces an existing one with a new one). Currently, as far as
> I can tell, this can only be done using either
>
> if e `member` s then s else insert e s
> which potentially descends the tree twice for no reason
>
> or
>
> s `union` singleton e
>
> which is documented as being O(|s|+1), although I wouldn't be shocked
> if the documentation were too pessimistic in this case.
>
> 3. A way to delete an element and simultaneously find out whether it
> was in the set.
Maybe (2) and (3) can be combined, c.f.
https://github.com/gregorycollins/hashtables/issues/6#issuecomment-37523794
there's related tickets in unordered-containers too:
https://github.com/tibbe/unordered-containers/issues/93
(even though those are for associative arrays, it'd be good if we could
come up with a coherent story for these operations rather than ending up
with subtly differently named/typed operations -- assuming it makes
sense to find a uniform scheme)
Cheers,
hvr
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