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. > > > > > > -- > Christoph Höger > > Technische Universität Berlin > Fakultät IV - Elektrotechnik und Informatik > Übersetzerbau und Programmiersprachen > > Sekr. TEL12-2, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin > > Tel.: +49 (30) 314-24890 > E-Mail: christoph.hoeger@tu-berlin.de > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >