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From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
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In article <mailman.1005590546.670.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, Steven Deller
says...
>
>Non-duplication insertion is better left to implementations intended for
>sorted lists.  In which case, I'd expect "insert based on key" to be one
>of the primitive operations.  And the user would NOT have the ability to
>specify where in a list an insertion was going to be done.

Since that stuff (sorts and Keys) is a fairly natural thing for "maps", perhaps
it would go better there.

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