container stuff

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 05/26/2010 06:07 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Looks interesting overall. There is one function, however, which makes no
> sense to me: removeElement()/stableRemoveElement().
>
> So, it basically removes a random element from the container? It could be
> quite consistent as to which element it removes from the container (it being
> implementation-dependent), but effectively, it removes a random element?
> What's the point of that? I can't remember the last time - if ever - that I
> wanted to remove an element from a container and I didn't care which. Or am
> I misunderstanding what it does?
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

If the container is a worklist with items to work on, it sometimes 
doesn't matter in which order you extract them.

Andrei