Names for general merge tactics in Data.Map

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Thu Aug 18 20:46:48 UTC 2016


On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, David Feuer wrote:

> I am open to the idea of leaving mergeWithKey in, but I'm not yet
> convinced. Can you give an example of a realistic application of
> mergeWithKey that cannot easily be rewritten in terms of generalMerge?
> I would normally agree with you that backwards compatibility should be
> preserved. However, mergeWithKey has several very serious problems.

In the past, it caused problems to install a new 'containers' on an old 
GHC. Is this problem solved?

> 1. It allows the user to produce invalid maps. Unlike other functions
> that do so, it's not clear that it offers any significant efficiency
> benefit (once generalMerge is added).

How about adding WARNING or DEPRECATED?


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