speed, etc.

Pascal Serrarens pascalrs@cs.kun.nl
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 10:34:39 +0100


Zuurbier, E. - AMSXE wrote:
> 
> >From literature I understood that Haskell had no in place update of a
> single array element. Is that still the case? Is that a matter of extending
> Haskell's implementation or is it theoretically impossible with monads?

It is still true for Haskell. GHC and Hugs do provide mutable arrays.
(see Libraries and Tools for Haskell/Libraries shared by Hugs and GHC on the
www.haskell.org page). GHC already had mutable arrays years ago.
 
Pascal Serrarens.