Re: Proposal (Trac ticket #3671): Add takeRec, genericTakeRec and spanRec to Data.List

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote:

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:11:21PM +0100, Philip K.F. Hölzenspies wrote:

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Am I chalking you up as a +1?

For splitAts, yes.

My breaks has generally been such that    breaks "123,456,,78" == ["123", "456", "", "78"] but the details probably depend on exactly what I've been using it for.

I've been using this kind of breaks as well in the past. Is there a usecase for a more general version? Apart from that I'm positive towards the groupsOf function. Josef