Re: [Haskell-cafe] Collections

Jens Fisseler wrote:

The equivalent of Haskell's list data type would be the array type of most imperative or object-oriented languages. Both are some sort of basic collection type, good for their own sake, but if you want more specialized collection types, you have to implement them.

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..."