[Haskell-cafe] Re: Data Structures GSoC

2010-03-31 Thread Achim Schneider
Nathan Hunter enfer...@gmail.com wrote: -What Data Structures in the current libraries are in most dire need of improvement? -How necessary do you think a Containers Library revision is? -Should I attempt to build on the work Jamie Brandon did with Map as generalised tries, or is that beyond

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Data Structures GSoC

2010-03-31 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 31/03/2010, at 18:14, Achim Schneider wrote: We have a lot of useful interfaces (e.g. ListLike, Edison), but they don't seem to enjoy wide-spread popularity. Perhaps that's an indication that we need different interfaces? IMO, huge classes which generalise every useful function we can

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Data Structures GSoC

2010-03-31 Thread John Lato
From: Roman Leshchinskiy r...@cse.unsw.edu.au On 31/03/2010, at 18:14, Achim Schneider wrote: We have a lot of useful interfaces (e.g. ListLike, Edison), but they don't seem to enjoy wide-spread popularity. Perhaps that's an indication that we need different interfaces? IMO, huge classes