[Haskell-cafe] Collections

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Tue Jun 19 15:50:04 EDT 2007


Nicolas Frisby wrote:
> I don't know where you got the notion that such structures are not
> available in Haskell. There are many efficient data structures in the
> libraries. Lists are not magical, just popular, natural, and
> traditional. Specialized data structures are always important.

Mmm, OK. Maybe it's just that Haskell (or Haskell-related writings) 
doesn't place quite so much emphasis on them...?

> There are many references to be found. You may want to cozy up with
> this one if you're really interested.
>
>  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf

That certainly looks interesting...



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