[m-dev.] For review: small change to map.m and tree234.m

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Sep-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 12-Sep-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Estimated hours taken: 1.1
> > 
> > tree234__keys/2 returns its keys in sorted order.  This is a very
> > handy property, but not documented.  This change rectifies the
> > situation.
> ...
> > library/tree234.m:
> > 	Renamed tree234__keys as tree234__sorted_keys.
> > 	Added tree234__keys as a synonym.
> 
> I think the best way to rectify the situation is simply to document
> that tree234__keys is guaranteed to return the keys in sorted order.
> (This is already documented in the source code for map.m, as it
> happens, but it should be documented in the proper place, namely in
> the interface for tree234.m.)

BTW, whatever solution is adopted for tree234__(sorted_)keys
should also be adopted for tree234__to_(sorted_)assoc_list.

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