Re: select and selectSplit

Cale Gibbard wrote:

Lists are our loops. It has nothing to do with an aversion to using other sequence types. Lists reify linear recursion directly. So the real question I suppose is why loops are so popular.

Well, loops are certainly popular in imperative programming, because there you have only one world, and it goes through a linear sequence of states. But we don't need that in functional programming - and if we're using "State" (or sequencing), then it's perhaps a (premature) optimization (towards the von-Neumann execution model). Anyway, I don't care much about library functions I'm probably not going to use; but maintainability is an issue, and I agree with Bulat there. Best regards, Johannes.