Sets

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 or slices of primitive end types but also with any arbitrarily complex end type T, as long as the required traits PartialOrd and Copy, are implemented for T.

Usage

Insert into your Cargo.toml file [dependencies] section: sets = "^1"
Import into your source file(s) the four structs for the four different types of sets and the two traits SetOps and MutSetOps. The following 'use' declaration imports everything:

use sets::{Set,OrderedSet,IndexedSet,RankedSet,SetOps,MutSetOps};

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

The rest are methods of the traits SetOps, and MutSetOps e.g.:

// new mutable set with unique elements  
let mut su = s.nonrepeat();
// transformed into the opposite order  
su.mreverse;

It is highly recommended to read and run tests/tests.rs for many more examples of usage. Use a single thread to run them. It may be a bit slower but it will write the results in the right order:

cargo test --release -- --test-threads=1 --nocapture --color always

Trait SetOps

Implements the following methods for all four types of sets (structs):

reverse, nonrepeat, infsup, member, search, union, intersection, difference.

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 at any other time, use nonrepeat.

Union, intersection and difference when applied to IndexedSet(s) and RankedSet(s) return an OrderedSet as a result. When necessary, this result can be explicitly converted to other types of sets.

Alternatively, munion, minteresection and mdifference, (where 'm' stands for 'mutable', see below), will overwrite self with the resulting set of the same type.

Trait MutSetOps

Implements the following methods for all four types of sets:

mreverse, mnonrepeat, munion, mintersection, mdifference.

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 1.0.2 - some changes to printing to reflect changes to indxvec.

Version 1.0.1 - some tidying up of code, no changes of functionality.

Version 1.0.0 - stable version with some minor improvements to README.md (this document). Updated to indxvec = "^1" and Rust edition 2021.

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

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.