On Tue, 8 May 2001, Erik Meijer wrote:
Interestingly enough, I have the same feeling with Python!
Speaking of problems with Haskell, almost every time I write a larger program, I'm frustrated with lack of efficient arrays/hashtables in the standard. I know about ghc (I|U|M)Arrays for arrays and probably there are hashtables implemented in Edison library, but the program's portability would be lost and nhc/hugs would protest. I would be very happy if Haskell developers could settle on a simple, not sophisticated standard arrays. I personally would like an interface like: data Array type_of_objects_stored = ... -- abstract data MArray a b = ... -- abstract instance Monad (MArray a) put :: Int -> a -> Array a -> MArray () get :: Array a -> MArray a runMArray :: Int -> MArray a -> a -- int parameter is a size of used array. Even if they were put in IO, I still would not protest. Anything is better than nothing. Wojciech Moczydlowski, Jr