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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Containers - nontrivial element access
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:59:16 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> Yes.  But why do we stop at arrays, instead of at binary trees or
> doubly linked lists?

And why have we started at arrays? With their dopes, index types, slices
etc? The least aggregation primitive is pair. The question is what is the
minimal set of primitives [complete + extensible + readable].

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