[GHC] #2048: Add split and splitWith to Data.List

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#2048: Add split and splitWith to Data.List
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    Reporter:  twanvl    |       Owner:                
        Type:  proposal  |      Status:  new           
    Priority:  normal    |   Component:  libraries/base
     Version:  6.8.2     |    Severity:  normal        
    Keywords:            |    Testcase:                
Architecture:  Unknown   |          Os:  Unknown       
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 An often requested function is 'split', to split a list into parts
 delimited by some separator. ByteString has the functions split and
 splitWith for this purpose. I propose we add equivalents to Data.List.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2048>
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