alson: > We had a short discussion on the IRC channel the other > day about Arrays. I advocated that we do some > refactoring work and didn't meet with overwhelming > disagreement, so I wanted to propose that the Arrays > interfaces be refactored in Haskell'. > > As a Haskell new-ish-bie, the various Array interfaces > seem a bit inconsistent and make learning/using arrays > complicated. I *do* understand how to use arrays in > Haskell, but I think that the interface could be > cleaned up. > > Examples of current confusions: > IArray and Array are dupes (obvious); > listArray for IArray, but newListArray for MArrays; > "!" for IArray, but readArray for MArrays.
And unsafeRead/unsafeWrite are too verbose. They are usually (almost always?) safe (since the code does its own checks), so perhaps this essential-for-performance interface should have nicer names? They're not in the same unsafe league that unsafePerformIO is. Just something I pondered during the shootout massacre a couple of weeks back. Cheers, Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list [email protected] http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
