Semigroup repeat (base package)

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Harendra Kumar
<harendra.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could not find a function that repeats a value using a semigroup append. I
> am looking for something like this:
>
> srepeat :: Semigroup a => a -> a
> srepeat x = xs where xs = x <> xs
>
> Is it already available somewhere? Does it make sense to add it to
> Data.Semigroup?

What you seem to be searching for looks more like what we know as
`cycle :: [a] -> [a]`, and in fact there is its generalisation at

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.10.0.0/docs/Data-Semigroup.html#v:cycle1

hth