"This book is important because it presents data structures from the point of view of functional languages...a handy reference for professional functional programmers...Most of the programs can easily be adapted to other functional languages. Even C and Java programmers should find implementing these data structures a relatively straightforward process...Programs are physically well structured and readable, and are displayed in boxes. Okasaki has produced a valuable book about functional programming, exploring a wide range of data structures...a significant contribution to the computer science literature." Computing Reviews

• 1. Introduction; 2. Persistence; 3. Some familiar data structures in a functional setting; 4. Lazy evaluation; 5. Fundamentals of amortization; 6. Amortization and persistence via lazy evaluation; 7. Eliminating amortization; 8. Lazy rebuilding; 9. Numerical representations; 10. Data-structural bootstrapping; 11. Implicit recursive slowdown; Appendix: Haskell source code.

"This book is important because it presents data structures from the point of view of functional languages...a handy reference for professional functional programmers...Most of the programs can easily be adapted to other functional languages. Even C and Java programmers should find implementing these data structures a relatively straightforward process...Programs are physically well structured and readable, and are displayed in boxes. Okasaki has produced a valuable book about functional programming, exploring a wide range of data structures...a significant contribution to the computer science literature." Computing Reviews

• 1. Introduction; 2. Persistence; 3. Some familiar data structures in a functional setting; 4. Lazy evaluation; 5. Fundamentals of amortization; 6. Amortization and persistence via lazy evaluation; 7. Eliminating amortization; 8. Lazy rebuilding; 9. Numerical representations; 10. Data-structural bootstrapping; 11. Implicit recursive slowdown; Appendix: Haskell source code.

"This book is important because it presents data structures from the point of view of functional languages...a handy reference for professional functional programmers...Most of the programs can easily be adapted to other functional languages. Even C and Java programmers should find implementing these data structures a relatively straightforward process...Programs are physically well structured and readable, and are displayed in boxes. Okasaki has produced a valuable book about functional programming, exploring a wide range of data structures...a significant contribution to the computer science literature." Computing Reviews

• 1. Introduction; 2. Persistence; 3. Some familiar data structures in a functional setting; 4. Lazy evaluation; 5. Fundamentals of amortization; 6. Amortization and persistence via lazy evaluation; 7. Eliminating amortization; 8. Lazy rebuilding; 9. Numerical representations; 10. Data-structural bootstrapping; 11. Implicit recursive slowdown; Appendix: Haskell source code.