[Haskell-cafe] Collections

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 19, 2007, at 16:23 , Andrew Coppin wrote:

> Jens Fisseler wrote:
>> The equivalent of Haskell's list data type would be the array type  
>> of most imperative or object-oriented languages. Both are some  
>> sort of basic collection type, good for their own sake, but if you  
>> want more specialized collection types, you have to implement them.
>
> Maybe it's just a culture thing then... In your typical OOP  
> language, you spend five minutes thinking "now, what collection  
> type shall I use here?" before going on to actually write the code.  
> In Haskell, you just go "OK, so I'll put a list here..."

Haskell is, in many ways, a descendant of Lisp.  This does tend to  
lead to lists being *the* collection type, in my experience:  sure,  
others get used, but lists are the ones you see in examples and such.

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