[chuck-users] get hash keys from associative array

[Kassen]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 04:06:57PM +0200, Robin Haberkorn wrote:
> 

Hey!

> Secondly, arrays/maps are not the only higher-level (aggregate)
> data type in ChucK. There are also classes, which are well suited for
> record/structure-like use cases.

Yes, that is true. I meant "build in" structure but should have been
more clear. I remember somebody doing a implementation of lists in a
class, as a proof of concept, even.

> 
> Regarding the question of iterating maps: Of course that would be nice.
> But doing this by simply having a method that returns all keys as an
> array is inefficient, since that requires a complete traversal of the
> RB-tree (O(n)) to get all keys, followed by RB-tree accesses (O(log(n)))
> for every key. That is a complexity of O(n*(log(n) + 1)) for a complete
> iteration while it is theoretically possible in O(n).
> Doing it in O(n) however requires you to have a concept of iterators and
> iterator-loops, adding much complexity to the language. In the simplest
> case you need a special for-loop, like
> for (key, value in map) {...}

So, you are proposing a sort of "for-each" that would do the iterating
for us?

Thanks for the explanation, I had no idea it was so expensive.

Kas.