[Haskell-cafe] Re: Data.Ring -- Pre-announce

[Twan van Laarhoven]

John Van Enk wrote:
> Hi Heinrich,
> 
> I think I like Ring more than Necklace or Tom's suggestion of Circular. 
> I chose Ring simply because that's what I was searching for when I 
> wanted the data structure. The package will be named data-ring, so that 
> should hopefully be enough to clue in the user that it's not dealing 
> with the mathematical concept.

The mathematical concept would likely also go in Data, unfortunately. See for 
example Data.Monoid. If someone does at a Ring class sometime, it is very likely 
to go into Data.Ring, which would lead to conflicts. In fact it already exists, 
see the "monoids" package [1]

I would prefer the name RingList or CircularList. As long as you put the word 
"ring" in the package description users will still find it when searching on 
hackage.


[1] 
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/monoids/0.1.25/doc/html/Data-Ring.html

Twan