On 13/11/2010, at 9:33 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > > On 12 Nov 2010, at 20:21, Andrew Coppin wrote: > >> On 11/11/2010 08:43 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote: >>> If length, map, and so on had always been part of a Sequence >>> typeclass, people would not now be talking about >> >> It's always puzzled me that Haskell's standard containers almost completely >> lack any way to use them polymorphically. > > On the contrary, there is the Edison package of containers and algorithms
from which the typeclass name Sequence was drawn... I have a copy of Okasaki's book. There is definitely room for a middle ground in documentation between that book and the Haddock pages for the Edison library. Something that provides an overview of what is there and why you'd use it, with examples. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
