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[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Tim,

Friday, August 18, 2006, 8:23:16 PM, you wrote:

> I agree with that. The and = ... wasn't really an improvement over and
> xs = ... xs, and if the later is easier to read that's good.

the main goal here is readability, of course

> What happened to isSpace, toLower and toUpper (, from the tutorial)?

it seems that this list is incomplete. i don't found a lot of I/O
routines, such as interact or getContents

one more reason to move it to wiki :)

> I feel that Haskell is missing some basic string manipuation functions, like
> - replacing all occurances of one substring (or sublist) with another 
> string (or list).
> - tokenize a string by an arbitrary delimeter

MissingH library contains such routines, although it is gpl'ed

there is a (lazy) movement to establish such library, but noone still
started it. well, to write something new open-source programmer just
opens project and waits for contribution :)  who is darcs maintainer on
haskell.org?


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com