Re: [Haskell-cafe] Collections

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote:

Maybe it's just a culture thing then... In your typical OOP language, you spend five minutes thinking "now, what collection type shall I use here?" before going on to actually write the code. In Haskell, you just go "OK, so I'll put a list here..."

I seriously doubt this. You kind of mix two things, languages and libraries. Collections will most of the time be implemented as a library. So, in order to use the appropriate collection type, you have to know you're standard library or know of other libraries available. Then, whenever you need an appropriate collection type, you look what's available. It's this way with Java, with C++ and *definitely* with Haskell, too. Regards, Jens