On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Fons, > > why do you use the term vector? I'd say that this term is more or less wrong > for what this type is about. The distinguishing property of vectors compared > to lists is that there is addition and scalar multiplication for vectors.
That depends on how you interpret the word vector, which is polysemous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector You are interpreting it as "An element in a vector space, often represented as a coordinate vector" whereas in this case I try to mean "A one-dimensional array". > The data type you defined is a fixed size list. The fact that FSVec is internally implemented using lists doesn't imply that FSVec should be interpreted as a list. FSVec is an ADT and I could as well have used something else to implement it (inmutable arrays for instance). _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
