Re: [Caml-list] Wanted: your feedback on the hierarchy of OCaml Batteries Included

[Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:23:33PM +0100, David Teller wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 05:31 -0800, Dario Teixeira wrote:
> > Paraphrasing Einstein, I think the hierarchy should be as flat
> > as possible, but no flatter.  For example, I see no reason to
> > materialise in the hierarchy the separation between persistent
> > and mutable data structures.  The should be a documentation
> > issue.  However, and as you noted, there are cases where some
> > hierarchisation may remove namespace clutter and allow for
> > better code reuse.
> 
> Duly noted. As you may see on our candidate replacement hierarchy, we
> intend to merge Data.Persistent and Data.Mutable into Data.Containers.

More generally, I would like to advertise a bit more the proposed
*replacement* hierarchy reported at the bottom of David's blog post
[1]; do a text search for "One possible replacement" and start reading
from there.

Several problems with the current hierarchy which have been pointed
out in this thread were notice by ourselves as well, and are already,
at least partly, solved by the proposed new hierarchy.

Cheers.

[1] http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/batteries-hierarchy/

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