set.add() doesn't replace equal element

[Ian Pilcher]

On 12/30/22 17:00, Paul Bryan wrote:
> It seems to me like you have to ideas of what "equal" means. You want to 
> update a "non-equal/equal" value in the set (because of a different time 
> stamp). If you truly considered them equal, the time stamp would be 
> irrelevant and updating the value in the set would be unnecessary.
> 
> I would:
> 
> a) /not/ consider two different leases with two different time stamps to 
> be equal, and
> b) as already mentioned, store them in another data structure like a 
> dictionary.
> 
> Not knowing the specifics of the DHCP object structure, if a DHCP lease 
> object has some immutable key or other durable immutable attribute, I 
> would be inclined to make that the dictionary key, and store the DHCP 
> object as the value.

I have come to the conclusion that you are correct.  Thanks!

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