On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:20:02PM +0200, Michael Marte wrote:
when importing Data.Queue in 6.4.2, I am told that it is deprecated and that I should use Data.Sequence instead. However, Data.Sequence is not part of the base package - it is there but it is missing from the package.conf file.
Data.Queue ought not to be deprecated in 6.4, as Data.Sequence won't be available until the next major release.
Moreover, there is no documentation available apart from the source code itself.
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/libraries/base/Data-Sequence.ht...
Regarding Data.Sequence itself: - I am missing a function for converting a sequence to a list directly; I have to create a view and convert it to a list.
Data.Foldable has toList and various folds, for a class that includes Seq.
- Isn't the name too fuzzy? After all, a standard Haskell list is a sequence as well. Why not stay with Queue?
The name is fairly well-established for the data type provided there; it's much more than a queue.