Re: Containers and strictness

2010/6/24 Milan Straka

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On 24 June 2010 11:14, Milan Straka wrote:

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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.

I thought we are talking only about keys/elements. I would leave the values untouched.

Personally I vote for: - keys in Maps and elements in Sets are strict - vales in Maps are left untouched (lazy)

+1 from me Great work so far. -Edward Kmett