Arrays: new and old keys, i

[Mark Wieder]

David-

Saturday, September 13, 2008, 3:41:51 AM, you wrote:

> yes it is doable and not really "hard". So I think we are on the same wave
> length. We differ in that I'm complaining about it :)

<g>

> For beginners - it is counter intuitive (I remember having to ask on list
> about it when learning - and takes up space explaining in the
> documentation).  It takes a lot of lines of code, and messes up otherwise
> nice clean data structures with hacks just to get around the fact that you
> don't key your keys back in the order you put it in, and it is a very common

This gets back to my argument that in that case you want a queue, not
an array. Or rather a queue as a particular subclass of array. I'm
muchly in favor of adding queues and stacks (there's that word again)
as primitive types as peers of arrays.

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-Mark Wieder
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