From: Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T04:50:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Equivalent of collections in Java

On 5/25/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Java collections indeed offer more *functionality*: these are the
> collection types which do not have an equivalent in Ruby's std lib:
> TreeSet, TreeMap, LinkedList, IdentityHashMap, Stack and the
> synchronized Collections Vector and Hashtable.

I found this to be a deficiency in ruby for what I was doing (a
generic parser).  The collections framework I made for ruby is called
"cursor" and is on rubyforge.  It combines concepts from Java
collections/streams, C++ collections/iterators, and I guess even
ruby's Array/IO classes.  One API for many different datastructures -
array/string, linked lists, file/io, circular structures, gap buffer,
multi-threaded queue, etc.  Any data-structure that has a (or can have
a) linear order could fit into this framework.