[Haskell-cafe] The difficulty of designing a sequence class

[Brian Hulley]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Brian,
>
> Tuesday, August 1, 2006, 4:43:23 AM, you wrote:
>
>> As you've pointed out, there are 2 separate issues that are in
>> danger of being confused:
>> 1) Forcing all sequence instances to support all operations
>> 2) Bundling all the ops into a single huge class
>
> Collections library (darcs get --partial
> http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/collections/) defines good
> hierarchy of collection classes

Hi Bulat - Thanks for the link to the collections repository. I've at last 
taken the plunge and installed darcs and managed to get this onto my 
computer (although with a strange warning from darcs: 'plink: unknown option 
"-O" ').

I'll have to have a proper look into it. On superficial inspection, there 
are some unusual choices - for example putting (size) and (null) into 
Foldable instead of Collection, and calling "null" "null" instead of 
"isEmpty" (considering that Collection has a method called "isSingleton" 
which follows the usual convention of starting unary predicates with "is"). 
In any case it's interesting to see another possible factoring of the 
concept of collections to compare with Edison and the existing base 
collections.

Regards, Brian.

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