[m-rev.] New library module: pile

[Fergus Henderson]

On 05-Feb-2003, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Added a new library module, pile, for a collection type supporting O(1)
> insertion and concatenation.

Does this type represent a set, a multiset, or a sequence?
Looking at the code, I see that it represents a sequence.
The documentation should make that clear.

This data type looks quite similar to the `cord' data type
defined in the Boehm collector (see boehm_gc/include/cord.h),
except that it is generalized to allow the sequence to contain
elements of any type, rather than just `char'.

I do think this is worth including in the standard library.

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