On 11/16/07, Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 21:55 -0500, Olivier Boudry wrote:
By the way, what's the reason dropSpaceEnd is defined but not exported nor used through a rule? I'm just curious.
We decided when trying to standardise the API to start with just the equivalents of the Data.List functions. We have tracked changes to Data.List, adding intercalate and isInfixOf.
If there is a compelling reason to add dropSpaceEnd to the Data.ByteString API then the same would probably apply to Data.List and so it should be proposed for there and then Data.ByteString will track it too.
Alternatively, someone should make the case for why it should be added to bytestring but not list. There is probably room for more string oriented list functions in some library somewhere (especially crazy Unicode stuff), like Data.String.
Duncan
I understand the need for standardization. Having consistent functions across modules is something I really appreciate in Haskell. Thanks for the information, Olivier.