Why are there no ordered dictionaries?
Ganesan Rajagopal
rganesan at myrealbox.com
Tue Nov 22 23:37:30 EST 2005
>>>>> bonono at gmail com <bonono at gmail.com> writes: > what would be
the definition of "sorted" and "ordered", before we can > go on ?
Sorted would be ordered by key comparison. Iterating over such a
container will give you the keys in sorted order. Java calls this
a SortedMap. See
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/SortedMap.html
C++ STL map container is also a Sorted Associative container. See
http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/Map.html Ganesan
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