Re: Why is there no splitBy in the list module?

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 12:27 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Christian Maeder wrote:

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After all our discussions, I simply want to keep up my old proposal. It drops a final delimiter and is named using "With" instead of "By" and therefore would not imply any changes to Data.PackedString.

I think the general objection to the "With" suffix is that it is non-standard naming. All the Haskell'98 libraries use "By" for this kind of meaning. Data.PackedString is non-standard, and should not be relied upon as an accurate stylistic guide.

Indeed, the Data.PackedString API aspires to follow existing practise from Data.List and elsewhere in the standard libs. So if there is a discrepancy then it is Data.PackedString that should change. We'd be happy to do that, especially as the API is not yet set in stone. Duncan