Are some data structures more suitable for functional programming than others?

Question

In Real World Haskell, there is a section titled \"Life without arrays or hash tables\" where the authors suggest that list and trees are preferred in functional programming, w

Answer 1

The book Purely Functional Data Structures covers your questions in depth, and includes a great mix of theory and implementations primarily in ML - the appendix also contains Haskell implementations so you should be able to follow along with a bit of extra page turning. It is a pretty good (though difficult in parts) read if you are really interested in a thorough answer to your questions. Having said that I think ephemient gave a superb short answer.

edit: Steven Huwig provided a link to the thesis that the book started as. While I haven't read through it the only big thing missing (judging from the table of contents) are the Haskell implementations.