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scgmille@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This is missing from the spec. A functional version of clear isn't necessary, as it would be equivalent to constructing a new, empty collection.
The result is equivalent but the invocation isn't: constructing a new collection requires knowledge of the collection type; calling clear doesn't. For that reason, and for sake of uniformity, there should be a functional version of clear.
Matthias.