[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: multiset 0.1

[Marnix Klooster]

Sebastian Setzer wrote on Thursday, 7 February, 2008 11:14:

> Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 02:43 schrieb Twan van Laarhoven:

> > A bit of criticism concerning the name: According to the 
> > English Wikipedia, 
> > multiset is a single word.  So the identifiers should be 
> Multiset and 
> > IntMultiset instead of MultiSet and IntMultiSet.  However, I 
> > think it would 
> > be even better to just use Bag and IntBag as identifiers.  
> > Those are shorter 
> > and maybe easier to remember.  After all, the term bag is 
> > fairly standard.

> For users of C++ STL, Multiset is probably easier to remember.

Off-topic: For further discussion of bag terminology, see EWD786a
(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd07xx/EWD786a.PDF, transcript at
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD07xx/EWD786a.html).

Groetjes,
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Marnix
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