less than serious - PreludeExts

Shae Matijs Erisson writes: | In the true spirit of wikiwiki comes PreludeExts, all the tiny | useful bits of code you think should be in the Prelude, but aren't. | | http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/PreludeExts The very first function in there box x = [x] reminds me of a style issue which doesn't get much attention. The issue is vocabulary. If I'm reading someone else's code (or my own old code), this map box xs may well sidetrack me onto finding the definition of box, whereas this map (\x -> [x]) xs is more self contained, and not much longer. (I don't mean any offence to the author and users of 'box'; it's a matter of personal preference, how big a function neds to be before it deserves a name.) Regards, Tom