Taylor Fausak wrote:
It has been a week since I submitted my proposal. During that time, 28 people voted, with 16 expressing approval and 12 expressing disapproval. To everyone that voted so far: Thank you! You made for interesting discussion.
I've just written about straw polls in a separate mail... In the particular case of adding `singleton` to `Data.List`, I don't believe having `singleton` in Data.List will cause much harm beyond being yet another synonym to remember when reading other people's code, and inevitably breaking some code. I can even see the consistency argument, if one views lists as containers. But to me, lists are, foremost, iterators. (In fact that's why I usually import Data.List unqualified, because iterators are so common! So the risk of breaking code is, to me, real.) I'm pretty sure I will not use `singleton`, having grown used to all four of (:[]), \x -> [x], `return`, and lately `pure`. So there's no benefit in having the function. (If you're counting votes, that's -1 from me.) Cheers, Bertram