Combining Bag/OrdList?

Ben Gamari ben at smart-cactus.org
Sat Jun 2 18:27:24 UTC 2018


Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Am Samstag, den 02.06.2018, 10:55 -0700 schrieb Jared Weakly:
>> > It looks to me like many of the applications of snocBag should really be using OrdList.
>> 
>> Do you think there's benefit in refactoring to use ordList and then
>> removing snoc/cons from the bag API (instead providing only
>> operations that make no assumptions about ordering)?
>
> would you remove `toList` (which has to fix an ordering)?
>
Yes, this seems unavoidable. However, the documentation would make it
clear that the returned order is arbitrary.

Cheers,

- Ben

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