9 Nov
2004
9 Nov
'04
6:41 p.m.
Hello,
A hash-table becomes rather useless without mutable state AFAICS. Without it, one might almost just as well use a list of pairs...
Could you please elaborate? Is there motive why an Hash Table, implemented as FiniteMap of Lists, for instance, wouldn't be worth to using over a simple List? (This wouldn't help G. Klyne of course). I've always wondered why a non-monadic version of is not provided in the GHC libs... J.A.