help!! - now "Hash the set"

Andreas Raab raab at isgnw.cs.Uni-Magdeburg.DE
Fri Apr 17 20:05:38 UTC 1998


> 
> > Absolutely right. I've never seen a case where using a collection as key
> > would *really* be necessary.
> 
> I'm not sure this statement means anything more than the Church-Turing thesis.

Right. Ian already corrected me noting that Strings are collections, too ;-(
So to everyone: Don't take the statement to seriously ...
However, I do still think that in cases where you use collections for
keying you better think twice if there isn't another way of doing it.

Andreas
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