Helmut, do you actually know the container APIs?

Show me cons and append in Data.Set!

On 2019-08-18 19:40, Helmut Schmidt wrote:
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> Am So., 18. Aug. 2019 um 17:17 Uhr schrieb Oliver Charles
> <ollie@ocharles.org.uk <mailto:ollie@ocharles.org.uk>>:
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>     On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, 5:47 pm Helmut Schmidt,
>     <helmut.schmidt.4711@gmail.com
>     <mailto:helmut.schmidt.4711@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         All these philosophical arguments calling for "consistency" with
>         the container APIs or that function need words for the human
>         mind to comprehend seem short-sighted to me. If we were
>         consistent about the proposal itself we'd also demand to add
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>            cons = (:)
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>            empty = []
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>            toList = id
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>            fromList = id
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>     I honestly have no problem with any of these.
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> I forgot
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>      append = (++)
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> We also need to address another elephant in the room... those pesky
> tuples and their special privileged non-wordy syntax!
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>     pair = (,)
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>     triple = (,,)
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>     quadruple = (,,,)
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>     quituple = (,,,,)
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>     sextuple = (,,,,,)
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>     septuble = (,,,,,,)
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>     octuple = (,,,,,,,)
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> If Haskell were invented in this century's EU Haskell source code would
> be littered with €s instead of $s but then again I wonder why £ wasn't
> picked. But I digress. We can kill two birds with one stone here:
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>     apply = ($)
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>     strictApply = ($!)
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>     compose = (.)
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> It's fun to imagine how code using those definitions would like! But
> it's still a -1 for me, sorry!
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