[Haskell] Proposal for a Standard of Abstract Collections (with Reference Implementation)

[Dylan Thurston]

Another comment is that it looks too complicated.  Your basic
Collection class has 30 members, and some of them are clearly
excessive: do you really need all of has, elem, (#), not_elem, and
(/#) in the class (rather than defined as auxiliary functions,
possibly optimised with fusion)?

(Of course, these particular functions should be in a subclass that
has equality on the arguments...)

For another example, how could zip possibly be given a more efficient
implementation than the one you provide?  (And furthermore, a function
'zip' obviously doesn't make sense on general collections.  Even for
sequences, it can't be "democratic", so probably doesn't belong in the
class.)

Please try to simplify the interface more!

Peace,
	Dylan

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