Re: Proposal: reduce base from the top

5 Apr 2007


      On 4/3/07, Simon Marlow  wrote:
...
Control.Applicative
Data.Foldable, Data.Traversable
Data.Map, Data.IntMap, Data.Set, Data.IntSet
Data.Sequence, Data.Tree
Data.HashTable
Data.Graph
---> new package collections? containers?  or split further?
      (dep. on array, generics, concurrent)
Applicative seems more related to Functor, Monad, and Arrow than to
the collections. Even its haddock page mentions parsers before
Traversable. I think Control.Applicative should stay in base or follow
Control.Arrow if that moves somewhere else.

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Namasté,
Jeffrey Yasskin