Sets

Usage

Insert into your Cargo.toml file [dependencies] section: sets = "^0.1"
Import into your source file(s) the structs and trait:
use sets::{Set,OrderedSet,IndexedSet,RankedSet,SetOps,MutSetOps};

The initialisers and conversions are associated with their structs, e.g.:
let s = Set::from_slice(&v);

The rest are methods of the traits SetOps, and MutSetOps e.g.:
let mut su = s.nonrepeat(); // new set with unique elements
su.mreverse; // transformed into the opposite order
See tests/tests.rs for example usage.

Description

Crate sets consists mostly of structs Set, OrderedSet, IndexedSet, RankedSet, which are type-safe wrappers for the more primitive imported functions and methods from crate indxvec.

The main capabilities of sets include: efficient sorting, ranking, merging, searching and indices manipulations. The structs contain generic vectors Vec<T>. Thus they will work with vectors/slices of primitive types but also on any arbitrarily complex end type T, as long as the required traits PartialOrd and Copy, are implemented for T.

Trait SetOps

Implements methods:
reverse, nonrepeat, infsup, member, search, union, intersection, difference,
for all four types of sets. Some of these methods are more efficient for the ordered and indexed sets, rather than for the unordered sets. For example, member and search are then able to use binary search. Union is like the classical merge but only one copy of items that were present in both input sets is kept. To remove repetitions from a set, use nonrepeat.

Union, interesection and difference applied to IndexedSet(s) or RankedSet(s) for now return only OrderedSet(s). Should this not be what is wanted, convert the result, or better still, use munion, minteresection and mdifference, (see below), which do not have this restriction.

Trait MutSetOps

Implements methods:
mreverse, mnonrepeat, munion, mintersection, mdifference,
for all four types of sets. They overwrite the mutable set to which they are applied with the result. Thus they are not functional but in this context of handling potentially large vectors, they are in some cases simpler and more efficient.

Release Notes (Latest First)

Version 0.1.8 - 'infsup' now returns struct MinMax (defined in crate 'indxvec').

Version 0.1.7 - just some cosmetic cleaning up. No change of functionality from the previous version.

Version 0.1.6 - implemented MutSetOps for all set types and added some tests.

Version 0.1.5 - implemented SetOps for RankedSet, making the implementations now complete. Future work: adding mutable sets.

Version 0.1.4 - updated readme, implemented SetOps for IndexedSet.

Version 0.1.3 - fixed readme typos, improved tests, implemented SetOps for OrderedSet.

Version 0.1.2 - implemented SetOps trait for struct Set. The other three structs will follow in the next versions.

Version 0.1.1 - competed the associated functions for all initiations and conversions of the four set structs.