John Van Enk wrote:
Hi Heinrich,
I think I like Ring more than Necklace or Tom's suggestion of Circular. I chose Ring simply because that's what I was searching for when I wanted the data structure. The package will be named data-ring, so that should hopefully be enough to clue in the user that it's not dealing with the mathematical concept.
The mathematical concept would likely also go in Data, unfortunately. See for example Data.Monoid. If someone does at a Ring class sometime, it is very likely to go into Data.Ring, which would lead to conflicts. In fact it already exists, see the "monoids" package [1] I would prefer the name RingList or CircularList. As long as you put the word "ring" in the package description users will still find it when searching on hackage. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/monoids/0.1.25/doc/html/Data-Rin... Twan