jds
Interface Set

All Known Implementing Classes:

SetAdapter, SortedList

public abstract interface Set

extends Bag

Set - union/intersection/difference of collections of values; for use with book Classic Data Structures in Java by Timothy A Budd, published by Addison-Wesley, 2001.

See Also:

Bag

Fields inherited from class java.io.Serializable

serialVersionUID

Method Summary

void	differenceWith(Bag aSet) form difference from argument set
void	intersectWith(Bag aSet) form intersection with argument set
boolean	subsetOf(Bag aSet) see if current set is subset of argument set
void	unionWith(Bag aSet) form union with argument set

Methods inherited from interface jds.Bag

addElement, containsElement, findElement, removeElement

Methods inherited from interface jds.Collection

elements, isEmpty, size

Method Detail

unionWith

public void unionWith(Bag aSet)

form union with argument set

Parameters:

aSet - collection to be joined to current

intersectWith

public void intersectWith(Bag aSet)

form intersection with argument set

Parameters:

aSet - collection to be intersected with current

differenceWith

public void differenceWith(Bag aSet)

form difference from argument set

Parameters:

aSet - collection to be compared to current

subsetOf

public boolean subsetOf(Bag aSet)

see if current set is subset of argument set

Parameters:

aSet - collection to be tested against

Returns:

true if current collection is subset of argument collection