racket/collects/scribblings/reference/sets.scrbl
Robby Findler cdd099f024 added docs for set/c
moved docs for predicates down near the end of the file;
  currently it goes: constructors, operations, predicates & contract, iterator stuff
  added docs for set-equal?
2011-01-08 14:10:08 -06:00

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#lang scribble/doc
@(require "mz.ss"
(for-label racket/set))
@title[#:tag "sets"]{Sets}
@(define set-eval (make-base-eval))
@(interaction-eval #:eval set-eval (require racket/set))
A @deftech{set} represents a set of distinct elements. For a given
set, elements are equivalent via @racket[equal?], @racket[eqv?], or
@racket[eq?]. Two sets are @racket[equal?] when they use the same
element-comparison procedure (@racket[equal?], @racket[eqv?], or
@racket[eq?]) and have equivalent elements.
A set can be used as a single-valued sequence (see
@secref["sequences"]). The elements of the set serve as elements
of the sequence. See also @racket[in-set].
Operations on sets that contain elements that are mutated are
unpredictable in much the same way that @tech{hash table} operations are
unpredictable when keys are mutated.
@note-lib[racket/set]
@deftogether[(
@defproc[(set [v any/c] ...) set?]
@defproc[(seteqv [v any/c] ...) set?]
@defproc[(seteq [v any/c] ...) set?]
)]{
Creates a set that uses @racket[equal?], @racket[eq?], or
@racket[eqv?], respectively, to compare elements. The given
@racket[v]s are added to the set. The elements are added in the order
that they appear as @racket[v]s, so in the first two cases, an earlier
element that is @racket[equal?] or @racket[eqv?] but not @racket[eq?]
to a later element takes precedence over the later element.}
@defproc[(set-empty? [st set?]) boolean?]{
Returns @racket[#t] if @racket[st] has no members, @racket[#f]
otherwise.}
@defproc[(set-count [st set?]) exact-nonnegative-integer?]{
Returns the number of elements in @racket[st].}
@defproc[(set-member? [st set?] [v any/c]) boolean?]{
Returns @racket[#t] if @racket[v] is in @racket[st], @racket[#f]
otherwise.}
@defproc[(set-add [st set?] [v any/c]) set?]{
@margin-note{Like operations on immutable hash tables, ``constant
time'' set operations actually require @math{O(log N)} time for a set
of size @math{N}.}
Produces a set that includes @racket[v] plus all elements of
@racket[st]. This operation runs in constant time.}
@defproc[(set-remove [st set?] [v any/c]) set?]{
Produces a set that includes all elements of @racket[st] except
@racket[v]. This operation runs in constant time.}
@defproc[(set-union [st set?] ...+) set?]{
Produces a set that includes all elements of all given @racket[st]s,
which must all use the same equivalence predicate (@racket[equal?],
@racket[eq?], or @racket[eqv?]). This operation runs in time
proportional to the total size of all given @racket[st]s except for
the largest.
At least one set must be provided to @racket[set-union] even though
mathematically @racket[set-union] could accept zero arguments. Since
there are multiple types of sets (@racket[eq?], @racket[eqv?], and
@racket[equal?]) there is no obvious choice for a default empty set
to be returned. If there is a case where @racket[set-union] may be
applied to zero arguments, instead pass an empty set of the type
you desire.
@examples[#:eval set-eval
(set-union (set))
(set-union (seteq))
(set-union (set 1) (set 2))
(set-union (set 1) (seteq 2)) (code:comment "Sets of different types cannot be unioned")
]}
@defproc[(set-intersect [st set?] ...+) set?]{
Produces a set that includes only the elements in all of the given
@racket[st]s, which must all use the same equivalence predicate
(@racket[equal?], @racket[eq?], or @racket[eqv?]). This operation
runs in time proportional to the total size of all given
@racket[st]s except for the largest.}
@defproc[(set-subtract [st set?] ...+) set?]{
Produces a set that includes all elements the first @racket[st]s that
are not present in any of the other given @racket[sts]s. All of the
given @racket[st]s must use the same equivalence predicate
(@racket[equal?], @racket[eq?], or @racket[eqv?]). This operation
runs in time proportional to the total size of all given
@racket[st]s except the first one.}
@defproc[(subset? [st set?] [st2 set?]) boolean?]{
Returns @racket[#t] if every member of @racket[st] is in
@racket[st2], @racket[#f] otherwise. The @racket[st] and
@racket[st2] must use the same equivalence predicate
(@racket[equal?], @racket[eq?], or @racket[eqv?]). This operation
runs in time proportional to the size of @racket[st].}
@defproc[(set-map [st set?]
[proc (any/c . -> . any/c)])
(listof any/c)]{
Applies the procedure @racket[proc] to each element in
@racket[st] in an unspecified order, accumulating the results
into a list.}
@defproc[(set-for-each [st set?]
[proc (any/c . -> . any)])
void?]{
Applies @racket[proc] to each element in @racket[st] (for the
side-effects of @racket[proc]) in an unspecified order.}
@defproc[(set? [v any/c]) boolean?]{
Returns @racket[#t] if @racket[v] is a @tech{set}, @racket[#f]
otherwise.}
@defproc[(set-equal? [st set?]) boolean?]{
Returns @racket[#t] if @racket[st] compares elements with @racket[equal?],
@racket[#f] if it compares with @racket[eqv?] or @racket[eq?].}
@defproc[(set-eqv? [st set?]) boolean?]{
Returns @racket[#t] if @racket[st] compares elements with @racket[eqv?],
@racket[#f] if it compares with @racket[equal?] or @racket[eq?].}
@defproc[(set-eq? [st set?]) boolean?]{
Returns @racket[#t] if @racket[st] compares elements with @racket[eq?],
@racket[#f] if it compares with @racket[equal?] or @racket[eqv?].}
@defproc[(set/c [contract contract?] [#:cmp cmp (or/c 'dont-care 'equal 'eqv 'eq) 'dont-care]) contract?]{
Constructs a contract that recognizes sets whose elements match @racket[contract].
If @racket[cmp] is @racket['dont-care], then the equality notion of the set is not considered
when checking the contract. Otherwise, the contract accepts only sets with the corresponding
notion of equality.
}
@defproc[(in-set [st set?]) sequence?]{
Explicitly converts a set to a sequence for use with @racket[for] and
other forms.}
@deftogether[(
@defform[(for/set (for-clause ...) body ...+)]
@defform[(for/seteq (for-clause ...) body ...+)]
@defform[(for/seteqv (for-clause ...) body ...+)]
@defform[(for*/set (for-clause ...) body ...+)]
@defform[(for*/seteq (for-clause ...) body ...+)]
@defform[(for*/seteqv (for-clause ...) body ...+)]
)]{
Analogous to @racket[for/list] and @racket[for*/list], but to
construct a set instead of a list.}
@close-eval[set-eval]
@(define i #'set)
@(define i2 #'set-union)