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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: private types
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:59:41 +0100
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> But for trees and symbol tables and the like, as in a compiler,
> those container libraries are no help.

What is so special about trees and symbol tables? (I can see that
application-specific optimisation might be a problem).