Re: ANN: Simple components v 1.3

[Mats Weber <matsw@bluewin.ch>]

In article <629d00tlqvu326hi1vsomlmnvkobvbc0bl@4ax.com>,
 Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

>Isn't it same as to have just set rather than map? I have Generic_Set:
>
>generic
>   type Object_Type is private;
>   Null_Element : Object_Type;
>    ...
>   with function "<" (Left, Right : Object_Type) return Boolean is <>;
>   with function "=" (Left, Right : Object_Type) return Boolean is <>;
>package Generic_Set is

I think not, because with maps, you have to be able to extract an item 
given its key, which you cannot do with Generic_Sets as there is no key 
type. Following is the function that does that in my package:

   function Search (Key : Key_Type; Within : Bag) return Item_Type;
      -- Returns the first item in FROM that has a key equal to KEY.
      -- NONEXISTENT_KEY will be raised if no such item is
      -- found in the bag.