On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 11:53 +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote: > > This is a highly non-academic concern. Many widely used libraries, > > such as Parsec, operate only on lists and not the newer and more > > efficient sequence types, such as bytestrings. > > Lists in Haskell are the nicest data structure, they work most > naturally with the language. There is a reason that lists is the > default.
In particular lists are often used as a control structure whereas most other sequence data types are really only data structures. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
