Hello Donald, Monday, November 13, 2006, 1:25:19 PM, you wrote:
I'm we're going to use this forever more, then a name more meaningful than repeatM_ might be appropriate (personally, I have to check every time whether it is replicate or repeat that is :: Int -> a -> [a]).
I'll resubmit 'repeatM_' as a separate patch.
i have one idea: this dispute between folks that prefer repeatM_ name and whose preferring forever form may just reflect differences between FP-oriented and imperative programming style. may be the best solution will be to create new Control.Imperative module and put all this imperative-alike stuff here. so, John Meacham can just ignore existence of such module while we can continue to decorate our imperative programs with such beautiful shortcuts: foreach = flip mapM for = flip mapM_ on = flip when forever = sequence_ . repeat new = newIORef (=:) = writeIORef ...... i'm pretty sure that for novices learning Haskell studying these names will be much simpler than studying Monad concepts and so on -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com