[erlang-questions] working with sets

[Vance Shipley]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:11:37AM -0500, Vance Shipley wrote:
}  My only dissatisfaction is that I don't have a lazy way
}  to find the first set in the set of sets which contains
}  an element.  I'm all about lazy evaluation.

I can of course do so easily using ordsets 'cause I 'm allowed
to know what the representation of the sets are.  It's just not 
portable to other set implementations.

	get_set(Elem, [H|T]) ->
	   case ordsets:is_element(Elem, H) of
	      true ->
	         ordsets:to_list(H);
	      false ->
	         get_set(Elem, T)
	   end.


	-Vance