BACKGROUND ---------- Data.Array provides (//) for incremental array updates. Data.Sequence lacks this useful functionality. SCOPE ----- Doing this efficiently may require that Data.Sequence access Data.IntMap. (It currently does not.) David Feuer commented: We may need to add some more splitting functions to Data.IntMap, if it supports them, but we probably want to do so anyway to match up with Data.Map. SOLUTIONS ----------- David Feuer offered the following implementation sketch. (See https://github.com/haskell/containers/issues/262) Collect all requested changes into an IntMap, then use something similar to Data.Sequence.splitMap with Data.IntMap.split to spread them through the tree. David Feuer commented: splitMap itself is overkill, because we'll likely be able to preserve whole subtrees. WHAT MIGHT BREAK ---------------- No anticipated breakage.