CMSC 341 -- Spring 2003 -- Project 1

Copy this file into your directory and edit it to add your answers to the
following questions about project 1.

These questions count for 10% of your project grade.

1. (5 points) Suppose that you have successfully implemented the
Bag class and you wanted to use it to implement
a Set - i.e. a Bag with no duplicates, and no maximum number of elements.
Describe how you would have to modify your Bag class implementation to
create a Set class.


2. (5 points) The Bag class was defined as a template so that it could
hold any type of object.  However, in the main routine
we had to figure out what the type was and call a special routine for
each.  Using this approach, if there are M possible object types 
we would potentially need to implement M routines
for handling command files.  Given that Bags are templated, why were we
forced to have one routine for object type?
Please be clear and explicit.  Suggest a way that the assignment could have
been restructured to avoid this problem, or argue that no such
restructuring is possible.