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Package contains the following modules:
A dictionary mapping keys to values. This dictionary can use any (non-function) type as a key.
The Dict in the core libraries can only use comparable keys.
AllDict uses regular equality, (==)
for comparing keys, and thus, works for anything but functions.
Unlike other dictionaries, this implementation allows one to set predicates on the retrieval of values, which allows one to do things like these:
import AllDict exposing (Dict, withPredicate)
withDefaultValue10 =
Dict.empty
|> Dict.withPredicate (always True) 10
|> Dict.insert "Another value" 42
Dict.get "Hey" withDefaultValue10 == Just 10
Dict.get "Nice!" withDefaultValue10 == Just 10
Dict.get "Another value" withDefaultValue10 == Just 42
Word of warning: this predicate-based design means that Dict.get
operations are O(n) lookup time, where n is the number of operations on the dictionary, not the number of items currently in the dictionary. This allows for space-cheap infinite dictionaries, as shown above, but isn't great for dictionaries that frequently change single values.