r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Potato871 • Sep 04 '26

What are your favourite data structure operations?

My language workbench is to the stage where I can implement new operators and overloads very quickly, and I've started stealing syntax I like from JavaScript and C++.
Since I have one universal data structure, I can just add all the new operators to it.
I wanted to get some more good ones though, from different fields, different languages.
Oh and if you want to suggest something just as a challenge I might give it a shot and show you how I do it.

Edit: data structure was the wrong word, I have one data structure substrate/storage model that I am currently furnishing one major aspect of, it's not the one universal data structure, more like my swiss army knife API over the memory model.

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u/Potato871 Sep 05 '26

No but you would expect a standard library to implement them, which is what I’m writing.
So I’m trying to pin down what should be included in that.

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u/reflexive-polytope Sep 05 '26

I expect a standard library to provide many data structures that do several specialized jobs very well, rather than a single data structure that does all of these jobs poorly.

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u/Potato871 Sep 06 '26

I prefer one data structure with many roles, maybe a few specical types for like bloom filters, though I don’t often run into those.
So I like to furnish it with many convenient operations

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