cvs commit: fptools/libraries/base package.conf.in fptools/libraries/base/Data IntMap.hs IntSet.hs Map.hs FiniteMap.hs Set.hs

Ketil Malde ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no
Mon Jan 17 02:38:12 EST 2005


Sven Panne <Sven.Panne at aedion.de> writes:

> I must admit that I didn't follow the data structure discussion in every
> detail, but I find something confusing: In Data.FiniteMap.addListToFM_C,
> the combining function gets the old value as the 1st argument and the new
> value as the 2nd one. In Data.Map.insertWithKey (and friends), this seems
> to be the other way round, which is undocumented and *very* confusing when
> trying to port things from FiniteMap to Map. Is there a deep reason for this?

Hmmm...I have perhaps a rather shallow reason.  When using a FiniteMap
to collect lists of values, I think it will be more efficient to use
(flip (++)), prepending instead of appending each new element. 

(It's a while since I looked at this, so it may not be exactly correct)

-kzm
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