On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:21:42AM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Iustin Pop wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:21:37AM -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote:
See http://hackage.haskell.org/package/split
The reason it's not in Data.List is because there are a bazillion different splits one might want (when I was pondering the issue before Brent released it, I had collected something like 8 different proposed splits), so no agreement could ever be reached.
It is curious though that the Python community managed to agree on a single implementation and include that in the standard library… So it is possible :)
It was not the implementation, that was discussed in length, but it was the question, what 'split' shall actually do.
Doh, of course I meant they managed to agree on a single definition of what split means. Sorry for bad wording.
If you are satisfied with a simple Haskell 98 implementation of a 'split' operation you might like 'chop' in http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/utility-ht/0.0.5.1/doc/html/Data...
Probably, but when I can have my own version in ~4 lines of Haskell, I'd rather not have another dependency (that might or might not be packaged in my distro). regards, iustin