What am I not getting with maps?
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| Why do IntMap and FloatMap map numbers to objects? Wouldn't you want to do it the other way round most of the time? |
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| I'm not sure how it is intended, but the way I use it is that I often map ID's to Objects, most times using human-readable string IDs, but ints are useful and more efficient for non-human interaction things. If I have the class, and instead want it's ID, then I think most times I end up adding that ID to that class or it's base class as a field. Most of the time I'm not using it the other way around, but I'm in no way saying this is normal, I have no idea what other programmers usually do :) |
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| That's fine for ints, but I really can't think when you'd want to map from floats to objects. |
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| While we're at it: for a convenience class, Set is an enormous faff to use. |
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