On 26 April 2004 16:02, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> Probably if the take function were being designed today, there would
>> be no question about whether it should take Int or Integer. Back
>> then, the Integer overhead was high enough to worry about, and lots
>> of benchmark programs used take/drop. Nowadays, we can't really
>> change the type of take without breaking just about every Haskell
>> program.
>
> Ok, but the whole library hierarchy is pretty new,
> right? There is no reason for
> Data.FiniteMap.sizeFM to be Int. Moreover take
> and drop in Data.List could be redefined to take
> Integer without breakage etc.
It is likely that Data.FiniteMap will be replaced soon anyway. See
recent discussions on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers,
Simon
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