[Haskell-cafe] Collections

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:42:22PM -0500, Creighton Hogg wrote:
> A lot of people have had comments on this thread, but I have a off-hand
> question:  what data types are required by the 98 standard?  I figured it
> was just lists & tuples because they have syntactic support, but is that
> true?

According to http://haskell.org/onlinereport we have:

()           - unit
(,+)         - tuples
(->)         - functions
Array        - arrays
Bool         - booleans
BufferMode   - buffering
CalendarTime - parsed human time
Char         - characters
ClockTime    - time_t
Complex      - complexes
Day          - duh
Double       - dp. floating point
Either       - sums
ExitCode     - for system etc
Float        - single precision
Handle       - filehandles
HandlePosn   - fpos_t
IO           - actions
IOError      - exceptions
IOMode       - open mode
Int          - fixnums
Integer      - bignums
Maybe        - optionality
Month        - duh
Ordering     - trichotomy
Permissions  - filemodes
Ratio        - rationals
SeekMode     - whence
StdGen       - standard rng seed
TimeDiff     - parsed human timediff
TimeLocale   - for formatting times
[]           - lists

Of these, Array, Maybe, (,), (), (->), and [] can be considered general
containers.

PS: why is there no index for the libraries - I had to compile that list
manually :(

Stefan