Re: [Haskell-cafe] inv f g = f . g . f

Christopher Done writes:

Anyone ever needed this? Me and John Wiegley were discussing a decent name for it, John suggested inv as in involution. E.g.

inv reverse (take 10) inv reverse (dropWhile isDigit) trim = inv reverse (dropWhile isSpace) . dropWhile isSpace

That seems to be the only use-case I've ever come across.

And it's here only because reverse^-1 ≡ reverse, is not it? I only can see how f ∘ g ∘ f^-1 can be a pattern.

There's also this one:

co f g = f g . g

which means you can write

trim = co (inv reverse) (dropWhile isSpace)

but that's optimizing an ever rarer use-case.

-- lelf