Proposal for Data.List.splitBy

[Marcus D. Gabriel]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> On 2009 Jan 4, at 17:59, Marcus D. Gabriel wrote:
>> Henning Thielemann wrote:
>>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Marcus D. Gabriel wrote:
>>>> We seem to have not added any splitters such as splitBy or split to
>>>> Data.List despite the discussions.  Here is yet another perspective
>>>> with the hope that it will make it.
>>>
>>> I assumed that the discussion was resolved by
>>>   http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/split
>>
>> I did not have that impression.
>
> The discussion demonstrated why there is no standard split in
> Data.List:  nobody can agree on how it should work.  Hence the Split
> package, which should allow us to find out which ones get used and
> which don't, and which are viable candidates for addition to Data.List.
>

I did not really interpret the Split package this way, but thank  you
for pointing
this out to me.  Let me follow up with Duncan's response and see if I
can explain
myself better.

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