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[–] philwills@programming.dev 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man... I thought this was going to be a proper rant about using maps where you should be using other things... No, it's a make sure you type your function inputs rant...

[–] hackeryarn@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I wasn't trying to go into typing as much as using structs or objects when working with known data attributes. Sorry that it was a bit misleading.

The original actually went into using trees, sets, heaps, tries, etc., but it felt way too... ranty. After writing all that out, I realized that most of those other cases come up really infrequently, and that my biggest gripe was about not using structs or other pre-defined key container types. I thought it would be better to keep things short and focused.

Maybe I should re-write and publish a data structures edition.

[–] philwills@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I would like that! Very much!