Hello ajb, Thursday, January 19, 2006, 4:47:28 AM, you wrote:
A good "standard" class hierarchy for collections and several implementations is very much needed, IMO.
asn> One problem that I got bogged down in was the idea that some data structures asn> most sensibly reside in monads (e.g. IOArrays) and some do not. A consistent asn> interface for both proved elusive. at least, arrays library have two completely different interfaces for immutable and mutable arrays, although these interfaces has much in common and moreover MArray in IO monad can be used to create "differential" IArray. i think that it is the very good design that just need to be entirely copied for general collection classes -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com