Test two objects for inequality.

Equivalent to x.hashCode except for boxed numeric types and null. For numerics, it returns a hash value which is consistent with value equality: if two value type instances compare as true, then ## will produce the same hash value for each of them. For null returns a hashcode where null.hashCode throws a NullPointerException.

Computes the intersection between this set and another set.

Note: Same as intersect.

The difference of this set and another set.

Note: Same as diff.

Creates a new set with an additional element, unless the element is already present.

Creates a new set with additional elements, omitting duplicates.

This method takes two or more elements to be added. Elements that already exist in the set will not be added. Another overloaded variant of this method handles the case where a single element is added.

Example:

scala> val a = Set(1, 3) + 2 + 3
a: scala.collection.immutable.Set[Int] = Set(1, 3, 2)

Creates a new set by adding all elements contained in another collection to this set, omitting duplicates.

This method takes a collection of elements and adds all elements, omitting duplicates, into set.

Example:

scala> val a = Set(1, 2) ++ Set(2, "a")
a: scala.collection.immutable.Set[Any] = Set(1, 2, a)

Returns a new traversable collection containing the elements from the left hand operand followed by the elements from the right hand operand. The element type of the traversable collection is the most specific superclass encompassing the element types of the two operands.

As with ++, returns a new collection containing the elements from the left operand followed by the elements from the right operand.

It differs from ++ in that the right operand determines the type of the resulting collection rather than the left one. Mnemonic: the COLon is on the side of the new COLlection type.

Example:

scala> val x = List(1)
x: List[Int] = List(1)

scala> val y = LinkedList(2)
y: scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[Int] = LinkedList(2)

scala> val z = x ++: y
z: scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[Int] = LinkedList(1, 2)

This overload exists because: for the implementation of ++: we should reuse that of ++ because many collections override it with more efficient versions.

Since TraversableOnce has no ++ method, we have to implement that directly, but Traversable and down can use the overload.

As with ++, returns a new collection containing the elements from the left operand followed by the elements from the right operand.

It differs from ++ in that the right operand determines the type of the resulting collection rather than the left one. Mnemonic: the COLon is on the side of the new COLlection type.

Example:

scala> val x = List(1)
x: List[Int] = List(1)

scala> val y = LinkedList(2)
y: scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[Int] = LinkedList(2)

scala> val z = x ++: y
z: scala.collection.mutable.LinkedList[Int] = LinkedList(1, 2)

Creates a new set with a given element removed from this set.

Creates a new collection from this collection with some elements removed.

This method takes two or more elements to be removed. Another overloaded variant of this method handles the case where a single element is removed.

Creates a new collection from this collection by removing all elements of another collection.

Applies a binary operator to a start value and all elements of this traversable or iterator, going left to right.

Note: /: is alternate syntax for foldLeft; z /: xs is the same as xs foldLeft z.

Examples:

Note that the folding function used to compute b is equivalent to that used to compute c.

scala> val a = List(1,2,3,4)
a: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4)

scala> val b = (5 /: a)(_+_)
b: Int = 15

scala> val c = (5 /: a)((x,y) => x + y)
c: Int = 15

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered or the operator is associative and commutative.

Applies a binary operator to all elements of this traversable or iterator and a start value, going right to left.

Note: :\ is alternate syntax for foldRight; xs :\ z is the same as xs foldRight z.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered or the operator is associative and commutative.

Examples:

Note that the folding function used to compute b is equivalent to that used to compute c.

scala> val a = List(1,2,3,4)
a: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4)

scala> val b = (a :\ 5)(_+_)
b: Int = 15

scala> val c = (a :\ 5)((x,y) => x + y)
c: Int = 15

Returns true if this is less than that

Returns true if this is less than or equal to that.

The expression x == that is equivalent to if (x eq null) that eq null else x.equals(that).

Returns true if this is greater than that.

Returns true if this is greater than or equal to that.

Appends all elements of this traversable or iterator to a string builder. The written text consists of the string representations (w.r.t. the method toString) of all elements of this traversable or iterator without any separator string.

Example:

scala> val a = List(1,2,3,4)
a: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4)

scala> val b = new StringBuilder()
b: StringBuilder =

scala> val h = a.addString(b)
h: StringBuilder = 1234

Appends all elements of this traversable or iterator to a string builder using a separator string. The written text consists of the string representations (w.r.t. the method toString) of all elements of this traversable or iterator, separated by the string sep.

Example:

scala> val a = List(1,2,3,4)
a: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4)

scala> val b = new StringBuilder()
b: StringBuilder =

scala> a.addString(b, ", ")
res0: StringBuilder = 1, 2, 3, 4

Appends all elements of this traversable or iterator to a string builder using start, end, and separator strings. The written text begins with the string start and ends with the string end. Inside, the string representations (w.r.t. the method toString) of all elements of this traversable or iterator are separated by the string sep.

Example:

scala> val a = List(1,2,3,4)
a: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4)

scala> val b = new StringBuilder()
b: StringBuilder =

scala> a.addString(b , "List(" , ", " , ")")
res5: StringBuilder = List(1, 2, 3, 4)

Aggregates the results of applying an operator to subsequent elements.

This is a more general form of fold and reduce. It is similar to foldLeft in that it doesn't require the result to be a supertype of the element type. In addition, it allows parallel collections to be processed in chunks, and then combines the intermediate results.

aggregate splits the traversable or iterator into partitions and processes each partition by sequentially applying seqop, starting with z (like foldLeft). Those intermediate results are then combined by using combop (like fold). The implementation of this operation may operate on an arbitrary number of collection partitions (even 1), so combop may be invoked an arbitrary number of times (even 0).

As an example, consider summing up the integer values of a list of chars. The initial value for the sum is 0. First, seqop transforms each input character to an Int and adds it to the sum (of the partition). Then, combop just needs to sum up the intermediate results of the partitions:

List('a', 'b', 'c').aggregate(0)({ (sum, ch) => sum + ch.toInt }, { (p1, p2) => p1 + p2 })

Composes two instances of Function1 in a new Function1, with this function applied first.

Tests if some element is contained in this set.

This method is equivalent to contains. It allows sets to be interpreted as predicates.

Cast the receiver object to be of type T0.

Note that the success of a cast at runtime is modulo Scala's erasure semantics. Therefore the expression 1.asInstanceOf[String] will throw a ClassCastException at runtime, while the expression List(1).asInstanceOf[List[String]] will not. In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the requested type.

Method called from equality methods, so that user-defined subclasses can refuse to be equal to other collections of the same kind.

Create a copy of the receiver object.

The default implementation of the clone method is platform dependent.

Builds a new collection by applying a partial function to all elements of this immutable sorted set on which the function is defined.

Finds the first element of the traversable or iterator for which the given partial function is defined, and applies the partial function to it.

Note: may not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

The factory companion object that builds instances of class immutable.Set. (or its Iterable superclass where class immutable.Set is not a Seq.)

Comparison function that orders keys.

Result of comparing this with operand that.

Composes two instances of Function1 in a new Function1, with this function applied last.

Tests if some element is contained in this set.

Copies the elements of this immutable sorted set to an array. Fills the given array xs with at most len elements of this immutable sorted set, starting at position start. Copying will stop once either the end of the current immutable sorted set is reached, or the end of the target array is reached, or len elements have been copied.

Copies the elements of this immutable sorted set to an array. Fills the given array xs with values of this immutable sorted set. Copying will stop once either the end of the current immutable sorted set is reached, or the end of the target array is reached.

Copies the elements of this immutable sorted set to an array. Fills the given array xs with values of this immutable sorted set, beginning at index start. Copying will stop once either the end of the current immutable sorted set is reached, or the end of the target array is reached.

Copies all elements of this traversable or iterator to a buffer.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Counts the number of elements in the traversable or iterator which satisfy a predicate.

Computes the difference of this set and another set.

Selects all elements except first n ones.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Selects all elements except last n ones.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Drops longest prefix of elements that satisfy a predicate.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Needs to be overridden in subclasses.

Tests whether the argument (that) is a reference to the receiver object (this).

The eq method implements an equivalence relation on non-null instances of AnyRef, and has three additional properties:

• It is consistent: for any non-null instances x and y of type AnyRef, multiple invocations of x.eq(y) consistently returns true or consistently returns false.
• For any non-null instance x of type AnyRef, x.eq(null) and null.eq(x) returns false.
• null.eq(null) returns true.

When overriding the equals or hashCode methods, it is important to ensure that their behavior is consistent with reference equality. Therefore, if two objects are references to each other (o1 eq o2), they should be equal to each other (o1 == o2) and they should hash to the same value (o1.hashCode == o2.hashCode).

Compares this set with another object for equality.

Note: This operation contains an unchecked cast: if that is a set, it will assume with an unchecked cast that it has the same element type as this set. Any subsequent ClassCastException is treated as a false result.

Tests whether a predicate holds for at least one element of this iterable collection.

Note: may not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Selects all elements of this traversable collection which satisfy a predicate.

Selects all elements of this traversable collection which do not satisfy a predicate.

Called by the garbage collector on the receiver object when there are no more references to the object.

The details of when and if the finalize method is invoked, as well as the interaction between finalize and non-local returns and exceptions, are all platform dependent.

Finds the first element of the iterable collection satisfying a predicate, if any.

Note: may not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Returns the first key of the collection.

Builds a new collection by applying a function to all elements of this immutable sorted set and using the elements of the resulting collections.

For example:

def getWords(lines: Seq[String]): Seq[String] = lines flatMap (line => line split "\\W+")

The type of the resulting collection is guided by the static type of immutable sorted set. This might cause unexpected results sometimes. For example:

// lettersOf will return a Seq[Char] of likely repeated letters, instead of a Set
def lettersOf(words: Seq[String]) = words flatMap (word => word.toSet)

// lettersOf will return a Set[Char], not a Seq
def lettersOf(words: Seq[String]) = words.toSet flatMap (word => word.toSeq)

// xs will be an Iterable[Int]
val xs = Map("a" -> List(11,111), "b" -> List(22,222)).flatMap(_._2)

// ys will be a Map[Int, Int]
val ys = Map("a" -> List(1 -> 11,1 -> 111), "b" -> List(2 -> 22,2 -> 222)).flatMap(_._2)

Converts this immutable sorted set of traversable collections into a immutable sorted set formed by the elements of these traversable collections.

The resulting collection's type will be guided by the static type of immutable sorted set. For example:

val xs = List(
           Set(1, 2, 3),
           Set(1, 2, 3)
         ).flatten
// xs == List(1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3)

val ys = Set(
           List(1, 2, 3),
           List(3, 2, 1)
         ).flatten
// ys == Set(1, 2, 3)

Folds the elements of this traversable or iterator using the specified associative binary operator.

The order in which operations are performed on elements is unspecified and may be nondeterministic.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Applies a binary operator to a start value and all elements of this traversable or iterator, going left to right.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered or the operator is associative and commutative.

Applies a binary operator to all elements of this iterable collection and a start value, going right to left.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered. or the operator is associative and commutative.

Tests whether a predicate holds for all elements of this iterable collection.

Note: may not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Applies a function f to all elements of this immutable sorted set.

Note: this method underlies the implementation of most other bulk operations. Subclasses should re-implement this method if a more efficient implementation exists.

Returns string formatted according to given format string. Format strings are as for String.format (@see java.lang.String.format).

Creates a ranged projection of this collection with no upper-bound.

The generic builder that builds instances of Traversable at arbitrary element types.

Returns the runtime class representation of the object.

Partitions this traversable collection into a map of traversable collections according to some discriminator function.

Note: this method is not re-implemented by views. This means when applied to a view it will always force the view and return a new traversable collection.

Partitions elements in fixed size iterable collections.

Tests whether this traversable collection is known to have a finite size. All strict collections are known to have finite size. For a non-strict collection such as Stream, the predicate returns true if all elements have been computed. It returns false if the stream is not yet evaluated to the end. Non-empty Iterators usually return false even if they were created from a collection with a known finite size.

Note: many collection methods will not work on collections of infinite sizes. The typical failure mode is an infinite loop. These methods always attempt a traversal without checking first that hasDefiniteSize returns true. However, checking hasDefiniteSize can provide an assurance that size is well-defined and non-termination is not a concern.

The hashCode method for reference types. See hashCode in scala.Any.

Selects the first element of this iterable collection.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Optionally selects the first element.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Selects all elements except the last.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Iterates over the inits of this traversable collection. The first value will be this traversable collection and the final one will be an empty traversable collection, with the intervening values the results of successive applications of init.

Computes the intersection between this set and another set.

Tests if this set is empty.

Test whether the dynamic type of the receiver object is T0.

Note that the result of the test is modulo Scala's erasure semantics. Therefore the expression 1.isInstanceOf[String] will return false, while the expression List(1).isInstanceOf[List[String]] will return true. In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the specified type.

Tests whether this traversable collection can be repeatedly traversed.

Creates a new iterator over all elements contained in this iterable object.

Creates an iterator that contains all values from this collection greater than or equal to start according to the ordering of this collection. x.iteratorFrom(y) is equivalent to but will usually be more efficient than x.from(y).iterator

return as a projection the set of keys in this collection

Creates an iterator over all the keys(or elements) contained in this collection greater than or equal to start according to the ordering of this collection. x.keysIteratorFrom(y) is equivalent to but often more efficient than x.from(y).keysIterator.

Selects the last element.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Returns the last key of the collection.

Optionally selects the last element.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Builds a new collection by applying a function to all elements of this immutable sorted set.

Finds the largest element.

Finds the first element which yields the largest value measured by function f.

Finds the smallest element.

Finds the first element which yields the smallest value measured by function f.

Displays all elements of this traversable or iterator in a string.

Displays all elements of this traversable or iterator in a string using a separator string.

Displays all elements of this traversable or iterator in a string using start, end, and separator strings.

Equivalent to !(this eq that).

A common implementation of newBuilder for all sets in terms of empty. Overridden for mutable sets in `mutable.SetLike`.

Tests whether the traversable or iterator is not empty.

Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

Wakes up all threads that are waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

Returns a parallel implementation of this collection.

For most collection types, this method creates a new parallel collection by copying all the elements. For these collection, par takes linear time. Mutable collections in this category do not produce a mutable parallel collection that has the same underlying dataset, so changes in one collection will not be reflected in the other one.

Specific collections (e.g. ParArray or mutable.ParHashMap) override this default behaviour by creating a parallel collection which shares the same underlying dataset. For these collections, par takes constant or sublinear time.

All parallel collections return a reference to themselves.

The default par implementation uses the combiner provided by this method to create a new parallel collection.

Partitions this traversable collection in two traversable collections according to a predicate.

Multiplies up the elements of this collection.

Creates a ranged projection of this collection with both a lower-bound and an upper-bound.

Creates a ranged projection of this collection. Any mutations in the ranged projection will update this collection and vice versa.

Note: keys are not guaranteed to be consistent between this collection and the projection. This is the case for buffers where indexing is relative to the projection.

Reduces the elements of this traversable or iterator using the specified associative binary operator.

The order in which operations are performed on elements is unspecified and may be nondeterministic.

Applies a binary operator to all elements of this traversable or iterator, going left to right.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered or the operator is associative and commutative.

Optionally applies a binary operator to all elements of this traversable or iterator, going left to right.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered or the operator is associative and commutative.

Reduces the elements of this traversable or iterator, if any, using the specified associative binary operator.

The order in which operations are performed on elements is unspecified and may be nondeterministic.

Applies a binary operator to all elements of this iterable collection, going right to left.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered. or the operator is associative and commutative.

Optionally applies a binary operator to all elements of this traversable or iterator, going right to left.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered or the operator is associative and commutative.

The collection of type traversable collection underlying this TraversableLike object. By default this is implemented as the TraversableLike object itself, but this can be overridden.

Checks if the other iterable collection contains the same elements in the same order as this immutable sorted set.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Computes a prefix scan of the elements of the collection.

Note: The neutral element z may be applied more than once.

Produces a collection containing cumulative results of applying the operator going left to right.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Produces a collection containing cumulative results of applying the operator going right to left. The head of the collection is the last cumulative result.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Example:

List(1, 2, 3, 4).scanRight(0)(_ + _) == List(10, 9, 7, 4, 0)

A version of this collection with all of the operations implemented sequentially (i.e., in a single-threaded manner).

This method returns a reference to this collection. In parallel collections, it is redefined to return a sequential implementation of this collection. In both cases, it has O(1) complexity.

The size of this traversable or iterator.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

The size of this collection or iterator, if it can be cheaply computed

Selects an interval of elements. The returned collection is made up of all elements x which satisfy the invariant:

from <= indexOf(x) < until

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Groups elements in fixed size blocks by passing a "sliding window" over them (as opposed to partitioning them, as is done in grouped.)

Groups elements in fixed size blocks by passing a "sliding window" over them (as opposed to partitioning them, as is done in grouped.) The "sliding window" step is set to one.

Splits this traversable collection into a prefix/suffix pair according to a predicate.

Note: c span p is equivalent to (but possibly more efficient than) (c takeWhile p, c dropWhile p), provided the evaluation of the predicate p does not cause any side-effects.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Splits this traversable collection into two at a given position. Note: c splitAt n is equivalent to (but possibly more efficient than) (c take n, c drop n).

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Defines the prefix of this object's toString representation.

Tests whether this set is a subset of another set.

An iterator over all subsets of this set.

An iterator over all subsets of this set of the given size. If the requested size is impossible, an empty iterator is returned.

Sums up the elements of this collection.

Selects all elements except the first.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Iterates over the tails of this traversable collection. The first value will be this traversable collection and the final one will be an empty traversable collection, with the intervening values the results of successive applications of tail.

Selects first n elements.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Selects last n elements.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Takes longest prefix of elements that satisfy a predicate.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

The underlying collection seen as an instance of Iterable. By default this is implemented as the current collection object itself, but this can be overridden.

Create a range projection of this collection with no lower-bound.

Converts this immutable sorted set into another by copying all elements.

Converts this immutable sorted set to an array.

Uses the contents of this set to create a new mutable buffer.

A conversion from collections of type Repr to Iterable objects. By default this is implemented as just a cast, but this can be overridden.

Converts this traversable or iterator to an indexed sequence.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Returns this iterable collection as an iterable collection.

A new collection will not be built; lazy collections will stay lazy.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Returns an Iterator over the elements in this iterable collection. Produces the same result as iterator.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Converts this traversable or iterator to a list.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Converts this immutable sorted set to a map. This method is unavailable unless the elements are members of Tuple2, each ((T, U)) becoming a key-value pair in the map. Duplicate keys will be overwritten by later keys: if this is an unordered collection, which key is in the resulting map is undefined.

Converts this set to a sequence. As with toIterable, it's lazy in this default implementation, as this TraversableOnce may be lazy and unevaluated.

Returns this immutable set as an immutable set, perhaps accepting a wider range of elements. Since it already is an immutable set, it will only be rebuilt if the underlying structure cannot be expanded to include arbitrary element types. For instance, BitSet and SortedSet will be rebuilt, as they require Int and sortable elements respectively.

When in doubt, the set will be rebuilt. Rebuilt sets never need to be rebuilt again.

Converts this iterable collection to a stream.

Creates a String representation of this object. The default representation is platform dependent. On the java platform it is the concatenation of the class name, "@", and the object's hashcode in hexadecimal.

Converts this traversable collection to an unspecified Traversable. Will return the same collection if this instance is already Traversable.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Converts this traversable or iterator to a Vector.

Note: will not terminate for infinite-sized collections.

Transposes this collection of traversable collections into a collection of collections.

The resulting collection's type will be guided by the static type of collection. For example:

val xs = List(
           Set(1, 2, 3),
           Set(4, 5, 6)).transpose
// xs == List(
//         List(1, 4),
//         List(2, 5),
//         List(3, 6))

val ys = Vector(
           List(1, 2, 3),
           List(4, 5, 6)).transpose
// ys == Vector(
//         Vector(1, 4),
//         Vector(2, 5),
//         Vector(3, 6))

Computes the union between of set and another set.

Creates a ranged projection of this collection with no lower-bound.

Converts this collection of pairs into two collections of the first and second half of each pair.

val xs = Traversable(
           (1, "one"),
           (2, "two"),
           (3, "three")).unzip
// xs == (Traversable(1, 2, 3),
//        Traversable(one, two, three))

Converts this collection of triples into three collections of the first, second, and third element of each triple.

val xs = Traversable(
           (1, "one", '1'),
           (2, "two", '2'),
           (3, "three", '3')).unzip3
// xs == (Traversable(1, 2, 3),
//        Traversable(one, two, three),
//        Traversable(1, 2, 3))

Creates a non-strict view of a slice of this iterable collection.

Note: the difference between view and slice is that view produces a view of the current iterable collection, whereas slice produces a new iterable collection.

Note: view(from, to) is equivalent to view.slice(from, to)

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Creates a non-strict view of this iterable collection.

Creates a non-strict filter of this traversable collection.

Note: the difference between c filter p and c withFilter p is that the former creates a new collection, whereas the latter only restricts the domain of subsequent map, flatMap, foreach, and withFilter operations.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Returns a immutable sorted set formed from this immutable sorted set and another iterable collection by combining corresponding elements in pairs. If one of the two collections is longer than the other, its remaining elements are ignored.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Returns a immutable sorted set formed from this immutable sorted set and another iterable collection by combining corresponding elements in pairs. If one of the two collections is shorter than the other, placeholder elements are used to extend the shorter collection to the length of the longer.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Zips this immutable sorted set with its indices.

Note: might return different results for different runs, unless the underlying collection type is ordered.

Computes the union between this set and another set.

Note: Same as union.

Result of comparing this with operand that.

Implement this method to determine how instances of A will be sorted.

Returns x where:

• x < 0 when this < that
• x == 0 when this == that
• x > 0 when this > that