[Advanced-java] Ordered sets?

[jaz@xxxxxxxxxxxx (John Zukowski)]

What you are looking for was added to 1.4.

J

At 12:03 PM 1/30/2002 -0600, Cain Brian-BCAIN1 wrote:
>         I've got a question about ordered sets.  I'd like to use a set, 
> that has order, but I don't want to implement a natural ordering of these 
> elements.  I'd prefer to use the order in which they were added to the 
> set (I don't think the elements of the set need to know, nor should know, 
> the order in which they were added).
>
>         I know the HashSet's iterator comes "in no particular order", but 
> does anyone know if it was implemented such that I'll end up with the 
> results I want anyways?  It seems like a tremendous waste of effort to 
> intentionally entropize a set's order, so I have to imagine that the 
> elements are added in some logical fashion, right?  Is there a set in the 
> JDK that I'm missing out on, that does what I want?


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