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-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/ordsets.xml9
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/src/ordsets.erl9
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ordsets.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ordsets.xml
index 7b590932e4..2d891d7a5a 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ordsets.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/ordsets.xml
@@ -142,6 +142,15 @@
</func>
<func>
+ <name name="is_empty" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Test for empty set.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>Returns <c>true</c> if <c><anno>Ordset</anno></c> is an empty set,
+ otherwise <c>false</c>.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
+ <func>
<name name="is_set" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Test for an <c>Ordset</c>.</fsummary>
<desc>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/ordsets.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/ordsets.erl
index 569407f5ef..939e147ad8 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/ordsets.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/ordsets.erl
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
-module(ordsets).
--export([new/0,is_set/1,size/1,to_list/1,from_list/1]).
+-export([new/0,is_set/1,size/1,is_empty/1,to_list/1,from_list/1]).
-export([is_element/2,add_element/2,del_element/2]).
-export([union/2,union/1,intersection/2,intersection/1]).
-export([is_disjoint/2]).
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ is_set([], _) -> true.
size(S) -> length(S).
+%% is_empty(OrdSet) -> boolean().
+%% Return 'true' if OrdSet is an empty set, otherwise 'false'.
+-spec is_empty(Ordset) -> boolean() when
+ Ordset :: ordset(_).
+
+is_empty(S) -> S=:=[].
+
%% to_list(OrdSet) -> [Elem].
%% Return the elements in OrdSet as a list.