Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package

Gábor Lehel illissius at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 01:41:02 CEST 2012


On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Roman Leshchinskiy <rl at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> [...] It still uses
> "unsafe" to distinguish between functions that do bounds checking and
> those that don't. What would be the benefit of moving functions like
> unsafeIndex into a separate module (and would it be called
> Unsafe.unsafeIndex then? or would it be Unsafe.index?)? [...]

Just to pick out this small tidbit, FWIW the Vector.index and
Vector.Unsafe.index scheme has the advantage that you could simply
swap out a module import to switch between bounds-checked and
unchecked implementations.

I agree with vector going into the platform, but have no opinion on
whether the Safe Haskell issues need to be resolved first.

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