On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:42:22PM -0500, Creighton Hogg wrote:
A lot of people have had comments on this thread, but I have a off-hand question: what data types are required by the 98 standard? I figured it was just lists & tuples because they have syntactic support, but is that true?
According to http://haskell.org/onlinereport we have: () - unit (,+) - tuples (->) - functions Array - arrays Bool - booleans BufferMode - buffering CalendarTime - parsed human time Char - characters ClockTime - time_t Complex - complexes Day - duh Double - dp. floating point Either - sums ExitCode - for system etc Float - single precision Handle - filehandles HandlePosn - fpos_t IO - actions IOError - exceptions IOMode - open mode Int - fixnums Integer - bignums Maybe - optionality Month - duh Ordering - trichotomy Permissions - filemodes Ratio - rationals SeekMode - whence StdGen - standard rng seed TimeDiff - parsed human timediff TimeLocale - for formatting times [] - lists Of these, Array, Maybe, (,), (), (->), and [] can be considered general containers. PS: why is there no index for the libraries - I had to compile that list manually :( Stefan