[Haskell-cafe] Re: Data.Ring -- Pre-announce

[wren ng thornton]

Tom Tobin wrote:
> ----- Heinrich Apfelmus <apfelmus at quantentunnel.de> wrote:
>> Since the name  Ring  is already taken by an ubiquitous mathematical
>> structure, and thus already in hackage for example as  Algebra.Ring  in
>> the  numeric-prelude , I suggest to call the data structure  Necklace
>> instead.
> 
> Is Necklace a known name for this data structure?  If not Ring, I was
> thinking Circular might be an appropriate name.

I'm not sure if there's a canonical name, except perhaps "circular 
queue". Necklace is cute, though Circular or CircleQueue might be 
better. I'd also advise strongly against using Ring in order to avoid 
confusing nomenclature. (Loop should be avoided for similar reasons.)

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~wren