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From: "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Binary Search
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"Lew" <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote in message 
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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.

To be fair, it wasn't Lawrence who said that Maps don't work with embedded 
keys.