Sets yet again :)

[Fredrik Olsson]

Hasan Aljudy skrev:
> Fredrik Olsson wrote:
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> Just write a set class. It's not /that/ hard.

That I already have, two implementations: Set and SmallSet, the first 
using a hash table and the second a bit field for speed.

But that is sort of not the point, if D did not have arrays I am quite 
sure no one would suggest "Write an array class", it is how Java and 
.net have solved it, but it is not the best solution, proved by both 
Java, C# and others "knows" about arrays anyway.
Same goes for strings "write a string class", the C++ crowd have settled 
for that, the D crowd have not, and I think we all feel better off that way.

My argument is the same with sets, it is such a useful, beautiful and 
natural part of programming that it should not be treated as a second 
class citizen in some backwater library.

// Fredrik