Add NonEmptyMap and NonEmptySet to containers
Andreas Abel
andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de
Mon Apr 29 06:26:15 UTC 2019
> I’m not sure what you mean here by “always requires a type synonym”
> ...
> example :: NonEmpty X -> Y
Jon, here you are exactly demonstrating the problem. NonEmpty what?
List, Set, Map, HashMap, IntMap, ...?
On 2019-04-28 00:07, Jon Purdy wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:49 PM Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de
> <mailto:andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>> wrote:
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> We definitely should /not/ repeat the choice made for
> Data.List.NonEmpty.NonEmpty. Using non-empty lists /always/ requires a
> type synonym, like
>
> import qualified Data.List.NonEmpty as NEList
> type NEList = NEList.NonEmpty
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> which is quite ugly, and type synonyms are sometimes expanded in GHC
> error messages, which causes additional trouble.
>
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> I’m not sure what you mean here by “always requires a type synonym”—I
> typically use NonEmpty like any other module meant to be imported
> qualified, like Text, Vector, Map, Set, &c.:
>
> import Data.List.NonEmpty (NonEmpty)
> import qualified Data.List.NonEmpty as NonEmpty -- or NE if I’m lazy
>
> example :: NonEmpty X -> Y
>
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