Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Tree.Zipper in the standard libraries

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jun 4 05:14:44 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 08:29 +0200, Krasimir Angelov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ndm> I was wondering if there is just one way to do a zipper?
> > _other person_> I've done them using several different interfaces, I'm
> > not quite sure which one I like best yet.
> >
> > (I know who _other person_ is, but it seems unfair to quote IRC with
> > names back at people, given the instant and non-committal nature of
> > IRC)
> 
> I would prefer the important discussions to be led not in IRC but in
> the mailing list. I personally very rarely (almost never) go to
> channel #haskell because I can't concentrate on my work if I have to
> follow the endless discussions in the channel. By the way so far your
> voice seems to be the only one against. I would like to hear what the
> other guys think.

I would tend to agree with Neil that significant additions to the core
libraries should be proven first as separate packages and integrated
later.

Duncan



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