I feel that Haskell is missing some basic string manipuation functions, like - replacing all occurances of one substring (or sublist) with another string (or list). - tokenize a string by an arbitrary delimeter
This came up not too long ago: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-July/thread.html#16559 Ironically this thread talks about how the same topic came up two years ago and no consensus was reached. So I made a skeleton page to discuss/maybe reach consensus on this. Please flesh it out and hack it to pieces! http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Prelude_function_suggestions
I know many of these functions can be written in Haskell without much effort.
Let the work begin (record opinions and any semblance of consensus). Jared. -- http://www.updike.org/~jared/ reverse ")-:"