[m-users.] lists and sets, unordered or ordered.

[Volker Wysk]

Hi

You can get a sorted de-duped list from a set. Why do you need an unsorted
one? If it's efficiency, you need to have it sorted, unless you have only a
few elements.

But be aware that there is the "set" module and five "set_*" modules. The
"set" is using ordered lists. That's inefficient for large sets. Use the
other modules when you have a big set.

Cheers,
Volker

Am Dienstag, dem 03.10.2023 um 21:55 +0100 schrieb Sean Charles
(emacstheviking):
> Indeed. nothing in my drafts folder and I swear it was complete before I hit send... well,
> basically,
> is there a reason you can't get an unsorted de-duped list from a set?
> 
> That's all...   :D
> 
> > On 3 Oct 2023, at 21:53, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, Sean
> > 
> > Your message suddenly stops in the middle of a sentence.
> > 
> > Volker
> > 
> > Am Dienstag, dem 03.10.2023 um 21:39 +0100 schrieb Sean Charles
> > (emacstheviking):
> > > I've just completed a generic typeclass based collision detection system and learned quite a bit doing it!
> > > 
> > > As I was reading the module docs, it seems that there is no 'unordered set without duplicates' unless I missed it, which is entirely reasonable.
> > > 
> > > The output from the collision detection  is two sets of integers, these are the identifiers of the missiles and the things that were hit at the moment. I now want to take this list and then set the '^hit' flag for every missile in that list, for example, the existing code will then no longer render it and remove it on the next iteration.
> > > 
> > > I used sets because they de-dupe as you go, meaning that my checking process is simply iterating two loops, m x n, m missiles and n moving targets, for now it is naive and will probably always be fine given the limited numbers of things on screen at any one time.
> > > 
> > > There seems to be no way to get an unordered, deduplicated list from a set, I can use set_unordlist but that leaves duplicates.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > For now I've decided to use set_unordlist, at the cost of maybe updating the same missile record more than once poost-collision detection, it's not going to kill anything really but mentally, and from a purity point of view it feels 'less optimal' than I wanted. Failing that I might just usr  list.member and use lists for everything like I did!
> > > 
> > > I just wondered what the reasons were for not having the ability to get an unsorted 
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