[Haskell] Re: Data.Set whishes

[Lennart Augustsson]

I think it's because of tradition.  Originally Haskell didn't have
qualified names, only renaming.  (Which, IMHO, was a wrong decision
in the original Haskell design.)

	-- Lennart


Koen Claessen wrote:
>  | http://www.haskell.org/hierarchical-modules/libraries/library-design.html
> 
> I have always wondered why the module system is not used at
> all in these conventions. I mean, the function names seem to
> come straight from the Haskell 1.2 days when there was no
> module system!
> 
> What I mean is, instead of:
> 
>   newIORef, writeIORef, readIORef
> 
> We could have:
> 
>   IORef.new, IORef.write, IORef.read
> 
> (Or: new, write, read if all we use are IORefs.)
> 
> And instead of:
> 
>   mapSet, emptySet, ...
> 
> We have:
> 
>   Set.map, Set.empty, ...
> 
> This is how Chris does it in Edison.
> 
> Why isn't this used more?
> 
> /Koen
> 
> --
> Koen Claessen        http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~koen/
> Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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