13 Jun
2008
13 Jun
'08
4:29 p.m.
Isaac Dupree wrote:
"extractHead" is an ugly name for a nevertheless standardish-meaning function... what is it usually called? uncons? headTail? (Data.Sequence, which is meant to be left-right symmetric, calls it "viewr"... except your version doesn't have the Maybe, it's partial instead, fails on empty lists)
Views are nice, but these other functions are needed too. As for "extractHead", what about "split"? (cf. Control.Monad.Logic.msplit[1]) [1] http://tinyurl.com/37f4ga http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/logict/0.2.3/doc/html/Control-Mo... -- Live well, ~wren