[Haskell-cafe] What's in a name?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Andrew Coppin wrote:

> The naming of cats is a difficult matter...
>
> Ahem. So as you may have noticed, we seem to have a profusion of packages all 
> called "binary" or something dangeriously similar. There's also several "MD5" 
> packages. I could point out a few others. So what I'm wondering is... Do we 
> have a formal convention for the naming of packages and/or the naming of the 
> modules they contain?

There is a page on the Wiki which lists several common top-level module 
names. Unfortunately www.haskell.org seems to be down currently.