the DELETE function

[Mark]

Should the DELETE function delete all books under the hash location?

[Anthony White]

I'm pretty sure it's just the specific book ID that it's requesting to delete.

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Mark <mahasi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Should the delete function delete all book under to hash location?

On Dec 4, 2:17 pm, Mark <mahasitav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To clarify...

[ahmad qawasmeh]

Hi,

 

As Anthony said.

 

Regards,

Ahmad

[Mark]

The example shows just the index and not the title, so it would delete
the entire bucket. I wanted to confirm this. If there is a collision
there will be multiple books at the hash location (bucket).

So the question remains.. the whole bucket or will there be a title?

On Dec 4, 2:28 pm, ahmad qawasmeh <arqawas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As Anthony said.
>
> Regards,
> Ahmad
>

> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Anthony White <tonywhite...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure it's just the specific book ID that it's requesting to
> > delete.
>

[Anthony White]

I thought the number that came after the delete command was the book ID? if so, then you're only supposed to delete that specific book from the bucket, not the whole bucket that contains that id.

[Lucas Hawk]

That is not the index. It is the book ID.

For a table of size 7, the following command,

DELETE 34

would delete book ID 34, which resides in bucket 6. You would not delete any other book, nor the whole bucket.

Make sense?

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[ahmad qawasmeh]

Hi,

 

The delete command will delete one book only with the ID specified.

 

Regards,

Ahmad

[Mohammed Alam]

should delete be a running total or output the number of iterations
for every time the delete command is called

[Lucas Hawk]

can we get some clarity on this??

 

how are you going to check this count? we are not ouputting it anywhere right? are you just going to watch the code? are we still supposed to implement this?

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Mohammed Alam <superm...@gmail.com> wrote:

should delete be a running total or output the number of iterations
for every time the delete command is called

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[ahmad qawasmeh]

Hi,

 

It is better to associate this number with the delete output syntax. Anyhow, it is not mandatory to print it out, but yes, you have to show it in your implementation.

 

Regards,

Ahmad