[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is there no splitBy in the list module?

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

Hacking up your own custom split (or a tokens/splitOnGlue) must be one of the most common questions from beginners on the irc channel.

Even fps has a split/splitBy: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString.html#v%3Asplit http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString.html#v%3AsplitWith http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString.html#v%3Ajoin

Anyone rememeber what the result of the "let's get split into the base library" movement's work was?

ISTR there wasn't a concensus, so nothing happened. Which is silly, really - I agree we should definitely have a Data.List.split. Cheers, Simon