On 2006-10-22 at 18:11+0400 Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Jon,
Sunday, October 22, 2006, 4:18:27 PM, you wrote:
intercalate, surely?
Since there's already a word that means almost exactly what we want, why not use it?
it's a rare word that is unknown for english-guests like me
В противоположность "Monad" например? (Apologies for what is probably appalling grammar!) More seriously, the more I think about it, the more I wonder if giving names to things that have such a short expression as “((concat .) . intersperse)” might not be counterproductive. Whatever we call it, even if it's a word in an English dictionary, it's meaning in Haskell becomes an additional learning burden on a programmer who whishes to understand programmes that use it. “(concat.).intersperse” might cause some head scratching at first, but everything involved is something that the programmer will have to learn anyway, and if its use is frequent, it will become idiomatic. Jón -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk