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<Chapter Label="Intro">
<Heading>Introduction</Heading>
<Section>
<Heading>Purpose and goals of this package</Heading>
The <Package>datastructures</Package> package for &GAP; has two main goals:
<List>
<Item>Provide abstract interfaces for commonly used datastructures</Item>
<Item>Provide good low-level implementations for these datastructures</Item>
</List>
<Package>datastructures</Package> requires building of a kernel
module for &GAP; to function, please refer to Chapter <Ref Label="install"/> for
details; the package is not automatically loaded by &GAP; after it has been installed.
You must load the package with <C>LoadPackage("datastructures");</C>
before its functions become available.<P/>
</Section>
<Section>
<Heading>Overview over this manual</Heading>
Chapter <Ref Chap="install"/> describes the installation of this package.
The remaining chapters describe the available datastructures in this package with
a definition of the supported API and details about provided implementations.
</Section>
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