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Mike Schilling wrote:
> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" wrote:
>> So why isn’t there a single-argument overload of the put method to save you
>> the trouble?
>
> There is, if you use a Set instead of a Map. Which, for sorting, works equally
> well.

In the standard API, HashSet<E> is implemented as a Map<E, E> under the hood, 
as is TreeSet<E>.  "Lawrence" could spend its time profitably by studying the 
Javadocs.

-- 
Lew
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