Re: [cilib-devel] Vote: Making google-collections a hard dependency

[gpampara <gpa...@cs...>]

The list is quite long. The main aspects are more type safety and the
following list
(as taken from the home page of google-collections):

    * New Collection types: Multimap, Multiset, BiMap and others
    * High-performance immutable implementations of the standard collection
types, for example ImmutableSet
    * MapMaker, a builder for concurrent hash maps with many advanced
features
    * Ordering, which can only be described as a "Comparator on steroids"
    * Iterators and Iterables utility classes: element-based equality,
cycle, concat, partition, filter with predicate, transform with function,
and much more
    * Lists, Sets and Maps utility classes: a plethora of convenient
factory methods and much more
    * Forwarding collections, such as ForwardingSet, allowing you to
customize collection behavior without subclassing
    * Implementation helpers like AbstractIterator
    * and still more

The functionality I like is the ability to use predicates, filters and
transformations on collections, not to mention the Immutable collections. I
envisage some very useful applications, especially to entities.

Regards,
Gary

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:07:01 +0200, Andries Engelbrecht <en...@cs...>
wrote:
> What are the additional functionalities?
> 
> Gary Pampara wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to propose the addition of google-collections as a
>> dependency of
>> CIlib. The additional functionality would be really useful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gary
>>
>>
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