From: "Phil Steitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <side comment> > It is interesting to note that what is going on here is that a > CaseInsensitiveMap is a map on equivalence classes of keys and the design > question is whether to store canonical equivalence class representatives > and use canonicalized access functions or to implement the equivalence > relation internally. The advantage of the second approach is that you can > recover the keys exactly as they have been entered, the disadvantage is > that one-time canonicalization may be more efficient. > </side comment>
There is another possibility. Store both the original and lower case key in the Entry. (Subclass HashEntry with an extra lowerCaseKey field) isEqualKey then checks against the lowerCaseKey Maybe I'm making more out of this than I need... Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
