Re: [Caml-list] Map that maintains insertion-order on keys

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

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You could use a pair of:
- a map and
- a list of weak pointers to keys with a count of present items and deleted
items (you would compact the list whenever there are more deleted items
than present items)

Why the counts: removing items from the list on deletion is too slow.
Why the weak pointers: using keys directly could increase their lifetime
after they have been deleted from the map.
If you don't need deletion, just a list of keys is fine.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Christoph Höger <
christoph.hoeger@tu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Am 14.07.2016 um 20:35 schrieb Jesper Louis Andersen:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could you give some small example of what you want or a more precise
> > definition? I can think of at least 3 ways to parse meaning out of
> > "gives keys in order of insertion", and I don't know which you might
> want.
>
> What I mean is that a map that is created by consecutive Map.add
> applications, yields the keys in the order of the add() applications, i.e.
>
> Map.keys (Map.add k_n v_n (Map.add k_(n-1) v_(n-1) (Map.add ... (Map.add
> k_1 v_1 Map.empty))))) =!= [k_1; ...; k_(n-1); k_n]
>
> it could also yield [k_n; k_(n-1); ... ;k_1], that does not matter that
> much.
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