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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Haskell Library Hierarchy</title> </head> <body> <h1>The Haskell Library Hierarchy</h1> <pre> Algebra DomainConstructor -- formerly DoCon Geometric -- formerly BasGeomAlg Control Exception -- (opt, inc. error & undefined) Concurrent -- as hslibs/concurrent Chan -- these could all be moved under Data MVar Merge QSem QSemN SampleVar Semaphore Parallel -- as hslibs/concurrent/Parallel Strategies Monad -- Haskell 98 Monad library ST -- ST defaults to Strict variant? Strict -- renaming for ST Lazy -- renaming for LazyST State Error Identity Monoid Reader Writer Cont Fix -- to be renamed to Rec? List RWS Data Binary -- Binary I/O Bits Bool -- &&, ||, not, otherwise Tuple -- fst, snd Char -- H98 Complex -- H98 Dynamic Either Int Maybe -- H98 List -- H98 PackedString Ratio -- H98 Word LargeWord -- Word128 etc., from crypto IORef STRef -- Same as Data.STRef.Strict Strict Lazy -- The lazy version (for Control.Monad.ST.Lazy) Binary -- Haskell binary I/O Digest MD5 ... -- others (CRC ?) Array -- Haskell 98 Array library Unboxed IArray MArray IO -- mutable arrays in the IO/ST monads ST Tree AVL RedBlack BTree Queue Bankers FIFO Collection Graph -- start with GHC's DiGraph? FiniteMap Set Memo -- (opt) Unique Database MySQL PostgreSQL ODBC Dotnet ... -- Mirrors the MS .NET class hierarchy Debug Trace Observe -- choose a default amongst the variants Textual -- Andy Gill's release 1 ToXmlFile -- Andy Gill's XML browser variant GHood -- Claus Reinke's animated variant Edison -- (opt, uses multi-param type classes) Prelude -- large self-contained packages should have Collection -- their own hierarchy? Like a vendor branch. Queue -- Or should the whole Edison tree be placed ... -- under [Data.]Structures? Codec -- Coders/Decoders for various data formats ASN.1 BER TLV Audio Wav MP3 ... Compression Gzip Bzip2 ... Encryption DES RSA BlowFish ... Image GIF PNG JPEG TIFF ... Text UTF8 UTF16 ISO8859 ... Video Mpeg QuickTime Avi ... Binary -- these are for encoding binary data into text Base64 Yenc DSP -- Digital Signal Processing libraries Foreign Ptr StablePtr ForeignPtr -- rename to FinalisedPtr? to void confusion with Foreign.Ptr Storable Marshal Alloc Array Errors Utils C Types Errors Strings GHC Exts -- hslibs/lang/GlaExts ... Graphics HGL Rendering Direct3D FRAN Metapost Inventor Haven OpenGL GL GLU Pan UI FranTk Fudgets GLUT Gtk Motif ObjectIO TkHaskell X11 Xt Xlib Xmu Xaw Hugs ... Language Haskell -- hslibs/hssource Syntax Lexer Parser Pretty HaskellCore Python C ... Nhc ... Numeric -- exports std. H98 numeric type classes Statistics Network -- (== hslibs/net/Socket), depends on FFI only Socket -- or rename to Posix? URI -- general URI parsing CGI -- one in hslibs is ok? Protocol HTTP FTP SMTP Prelude -- Haskell98 Prelude (mostly just re-exports other parts of the tree). System -- Interaction with the "system" Cmd -- ( system ) CPUTime -- H98 Directory -- H98 Exit -- ( ExitCode(..), exitWith, exitFailure ) Environment -- ( getArgs, getProgName, getEnv ... ) Info -- info about the host system IO -- H98 + IOExts - IOArray - IORef Select Unsafe -- unsafePerformIO, unsafeInterleaveIO Console GetOpt Readline Locale -- H98 Posix Console Directory DynamicLinker Prim Module IO Process Time Mem -- rename from cryptic 'GC' Weak -- (opt) StableName -- (opt) Time -- H98 + extensions Win32 -- the full win32 operating system API Test HUnit QuickCheck Text Encoding QuotedPrintable Rot13 Read Lex -- cut down lexer for "read" Show Functions -- optional instance of Show for functions. Regex -- previously RegexString Posix -- Posix regular expression interface PrettyPrint -- default (HughesPJ?) HughesPJ Wadler Chitil ... HTML -- HTML combinator lib XML Combinators Parse Pretty Types ParserCombinators -- no default ReadP -- a more efficient "ReadS" Parsec Hutton_Meijer ... </pre> </html>

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