Data.FiniteMap

Malcolm Wallace Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Mon Sep 4 09:42:51 EDT 2006


Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Is it too late to ask that Data.FiniteMap not die just yet?

FWIW, I'm in favour of retaining Data.FiniteMap for ghc-6.6, to be
removed only in 6.8.

> There are a number of progs/libs that this affects. It's not that
> people do not want to use the new Data.Map, but people are worried
> about having to drop support for earlier compilers.

I'll add my support to this argument.

> I think there is a wrapper somewhere that provides the old
> Data.FiniteMap in terms of the Data.Map implementation.

Darcs patch attached, if it is of interest.

Regards,
    Malcolm
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