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

[David Leimbach]

 I recently needed a ring buffer in haskell, so I did it in C and used the
FFI :-)

This is much nicer.

Dave

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Iavor Diatchki <iavor.diatchki at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> I usually refer to this structure as a RingBuffer, just an idea.  If
> you have the time, I would add rough complexity estimates to the
> documentation for the different functions.  Thanks for your work!
> Happy new year,
> Iavor
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:13 PM, John Van Enk <vanenkj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've decided to settle on Data.CircularList. The renamed git repository
> is
> > here:
> >
> > http://github.com/sw17ch/data-clist
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Twan van Laarhoven <twanvl at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> >
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