I still believe in the intelligence of the masses, in particular when it comes to the evolution of vocabulary. Hayoo gives me 14 hits on "ifM", and 0 on "mif". +1 to ifM/whenM/unlessM -1 to mif/mwhen/munless CustomPrelude. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a custom-prelude Control.Conditional. ifM :: m bool -> m a -> m a -> m a cond Bamboo.Helper. ifM :: m Bool -> m b -> m b -> m b bamboo Control.Monad.Tools. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a yjtools Agda.Utils.Monad. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a Agda Sindre.Util. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a sindre Language.KURE.Combinators.Monad. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a kure Test.WebDriver.Commands.Wait. ifM :: m bool -> m a -> m a -> m a webdriver Language.Fixpoint.Misc. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a liquid-fixpoint Scion.Utils. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a scion Feldspar.Core.Frontend.ConditionM. ifM :: Data Bool -> M a -> M a -> M a feldspar-language Control.Monad.Rosso1. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a rosso Control.Monad.Adaptive.MonadUtil. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a Adaptive-Blaisorblade Control.Monad.Adaptive.MonadUtil. ifM :: m Bool -> m a -> m a -> m a Adaptive On 21.04.14 11:35 AM, Mario Pastorelli wrote:
On 04/21/2014 10:41 AM, Simon Hengel wrote:
A quick heuristic grep over all Hackage packages results in quite a bit of packages containing the ifM/whenM/unlessM: But that kind of shows that the "expected" names for those functions are ifM/whenM/unlessM. I would ask the question:
Are there any other useful combinators that would be named ifM/whenM/unlessM under the current naming convention?
If no, then I'm not entirely convinced that we should decide against what seems to be common intuition here.
Breaking API consistency because a lot of people are already doing it doesn't feel right. If they are like me, they probably were ignoring the naming convention and used the most intuitive name. Once you know forM then it's obvious that you append 'M' to functions that "are more monadic". Probably mif, mwhen and munless are more compatible with the API rules.
In general, I'm not sure about ifM (as it does not line up with `bool`).
This is the second time that I read about `bool` but I can't find it. Can somebody provide a link to it? mbool can be a solution, but not as intuitive as mif.
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