On Friday 18 May 2007, you wrote: > On 18 May 2007, at 16:21, K. J. Cheetham wrote: > > I've already written the bulk of the module and a series of tests > > and POD for it, which I can show if need be. > > How does it intersect with > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Set-IntSpan/ > > and > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Set-IntSpan-Fast/ > > ? After further investigation I believe the main difference between what I was proposing and those modules is the handling of duplicates (though mine is also considerably less mature as well at this point). A set can only contain unique items, but I was more interested in collections. Also given my module stores the data as a string internally rather than an array, it makes mathematical processing much slower so I was thinking of just using it for display and user entry purposes rather than much manipulation. I was thinking of just exporting a few functions with @EXPORT_OK rather than actually making it an object.
Not sure if that's still worth making a CPAN module for that though... Set::IntSpan::Fast has since also gained methods to create a new object based on an encoded string as well. Set::Bag also caught my eye, but that handles more than just collections of numbers, and offers no such string encoding/decoding. Best wishes -- K. J. Cheetham MPhys (hons) AMInstP Software Developer Shadowcat Systems Ltd. http://www.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/
