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Why don the put and remove methods return the old values?

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Why don the put and remove methods return the old values?

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It is desirable that both of these methods be executable even if the backing store is unavailable. This would not be possible if they were required to return the old value. Further, it would have negative performance impact if the API were implemented atop some common back-end data stores.

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