On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:52:09AM -0400, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote: > >I guess the reason is balancing. I can't think of any way of > >balancing a > >lazy tree that wouldn't break abstraction. > > Uh, Patricia trees aren't balanced in the usual sense.
> There is exactly one tree structure for a given set of keys, > regardless of insertion order etc. (IntSet and IntMap workes > approximately as Carl Witty described last I checked, though I won't > swear to whether bits are taken low to high or vice versa.) Ah, IntMaps! Forget what I said. Best regards Tomasz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe