Adding swap/compose functions to Data.Tuple and Data.Function

Moving discussion from http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7435: I propose adding the following three functions to Data.Tuple and Data.Function, respectively: swap :: (a,b) -> (b,a) swap = snd &&& fst Fairly obvious, but strangely missing. compose :: [(a -> a)] -> a -> a compose = foldr (.) id composeM :: [(a -> m a)] -> a -> m a composeM = foldr (<=<) return This can be done with Endo, of course, but the result is awkward. The idiom of composing a list of endomorphisms occurs often enough that you can Google for it. -- John Wiegley FP Complete Haskell tools, training and consulting http://fpcomplete.com johnw on #haskell/irc.freenode.net