2006/7/12, tpledger@ihug.co.nz
Jared Updike wrote:
"split" is... unconcatIntersperse.
How about "separate"? ("split" or "splitBy" is better but it is used all over the place in many libs)
And for strings I definitely would use split :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] a lot, just like Python's split function. And "words" works great for breaking on multiple spaces, so I would avoid trying to fill that need...
FWIW my home-grown versions of these things are called fields and unfields.
Also, my version of the "split but don't drop the delimiter" is breakAll, since it's like a recursive break. words/unwords and lines/unlines have one argument, so a 2 argument fielts/unfields would break that "convention". Maybe: fields = csv `separateWith` "," csv = fields `joinWith` "," -- equivalent to concatIntersperse