
Le Fri, 8 May 2009 17:24:41 +0300, Mart Sõmermaa <mrts.pydev@gmail.com> s'exprima ainsi:
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@googlemail.com> wrote:
2009/5/8 Mart Sõmermaa <mrts.pydev@gmail.com>:
As Multiset is arguably quite useless[...]
Arguably, it is far from useless.
-- Arnaud
Can you perhaps provide a use case where a list (an "ordered multiset") does not suffice?
I feel the same. Unorder (like in dict or set) is not a feature, I guess. Set is useful for it ensures uniqueness of items, not because of unorder. A kind of "unique-item" sequence would do as well. Unorder is rather a consequence of hash implementation for performance, but I cannot find any use case where it would be a useful feature. Examples welcome. Denis ------ la vita e estrany