<p dir="ltr">So what names would you prefer?</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 7, 2016 3:34 PM, "Henning Thielemann" <<a href="mailto:lemming@henning-thielemann.de">lemming@henning-thielemann.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Sun, 7 Aug 2016, Edward Kmett wrote:<br>
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When the predicate is monotone then all of those operations have the same semantics as filter.<br>
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Which is true for takeWhile, dropWhile and span. I find the 'filter' names also highly misleading.<br>
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