Re: Proposal: priority queues in containers

Okay, let me ask the following question: Would anybody besides me be heartbroken if priority queues *weren't* put into containers, but were instead put into the Platform? Louis Wasserman wasserman.louis@gmail.com http://profiles.google.com/wasserman.louis On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Thomas Schilling wrote:

On 18 March 2010 22:02, Louis Wasserman wrote:

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I'm still pretty strongly in favor of putting priority queues into containers: other programming languages consider it necessary for inclusion into standardized libraries, people will be more likely to use appropriate data structures for their needs when reliable, friendly implementations are already at their fingertips, and other reasons already discussed.

The Haskell Platform is really is intended to be available at your fingertips. Unfortunately, the following does not work (although I thought it's supposed to)

$ cabal install haskell-platform

Nevertheless, the libraries bundled with GHC are those libraries that GHC itself needs and which therefore cannot be upgraded independently. The real standard libraries are the Haskell Platform and if your package is part of the platform, then your package *is* in status equivalent to things like java.util.*.

This weekend's Hackathon in Zürich will partly be dedicated to getting the next release of the Platform release ready. If you can get your package into the following platform release (due 6 months after the current release), then this would surely make it the default package for anyone in need of a PQ.

/ Thomas -- Push the envelope. Watch it bend.