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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Re: AVL trees - Re: Why Are Red-Black Trees Obscure?
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Sep1152251@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 14:22:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.183817.7371@reed.edu> <1992Aug27.115551.7958@daimi.aau.dk>
- <1992Aug28.154713.3125@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au's message of 1 Sep 92 10:39:13 GMT
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- In article <14298@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
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- There is a curious thing about red-black trees, which is that algorithm
- texts that describe them often leave out the deletion code.
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- I don't think this is perculiar to red-black trees. It seems that no
- matter what the tree, many authors leave out deletion code.
- I have _purely_functional_ AVL and red-black code but neither has
- an efficient delete operation :-<
-
- bevan
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