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		pmelendez on June 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Universal Data Structure > The use of hashes is an implementation detail and wholly irrelevant. Not in this case. An ordered map implemented as a tree has the same interface but with very different operation complexities

jcwilde on June 30, 2015 [–]

My comment was meant tongue in cheek. Maps are _the_ universal data structure: they can be used to map any input to any output. The rest is just an implementation detail.

One might even call them "functions", but that ruins the joke.

elbenshira on June 30, 2015 | [–]

I missed an opportunity here.

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