Does D have "structural sharing" of immutable collections?
Roman D. Boiko
rb at d-coding.com
Wed May 23 17:05:12 PDT 2012
On Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 23:51:45 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Roman D. Boiko:
>
>> The end goal is to have something as easy to work with as
>> collections of Scala or F# (I don't know Haskell), and, of
>> course, efficient.
>
> If you plan in creating a start of purely functional
> collections library then I suggest you to also take a look at
> Clojure and various Haskell collections. Clojure is very based
> on persistent purely functional data structures, used in modern
> ways. And in the Haskell tribe there are some very smart
> persons that have worked on those things for fifteen years. So
> spending one extra week reading and looking at those two worlds
> may help you a lot later, and give you many good/better ideas.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
Thanks, I will!
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