When You Should Use Lists in Haskell (Mostly, You Should Not)

2018/08/24 by Johannes Waldmann, Waldmann, Johannes
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #cs.PL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1808.08329

10 pages, Accepted for presentation in WFLP 2018

arxiv created 2018/08/24 · arxiv updated 2018/08/28

Abstract

We comment on the over-use of lists in functional programming. With this respect, we review history of Haskell and some of its libraries, and hint at current developments.

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