Semigroup repeat (base package)

[Harendra Kumar]

On 11 September 2017 at 02:46, Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang-it at jeltsch.info>
wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 10.09.2017, 10:39 +0200 schrieb Herbert Valerio Riedel:
> > 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
>
> Why is this function called cycle1, not cycle? What does the “1” stand
> for?


I guess this is not named "cycle" to avoid conflict with "Data.List.cycle".
I was also wondering why it is "cycle1" instead of, say "scycle". It can be
thought of as cycling just one value instead of cycling a list in case of
"Data.List.cycle". I Just made up this explanation, original writers would
know better. I would prefer "scycle" which is consistent with other
functions in this package like "stimes", cycle1 sounds a bit random at
first look.

-harendra
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