[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is there no splitBy in the list module?

[Simon Marlow]

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

> Hacking up your own custom split (or a tokens/splitOnGlue) must be one
> of the most common questions from beginners on the irc channel.
> 
> Even fps has a split/splitBy:
>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString.html#v%3Asplit
>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString.html#v%3AsplitWith
>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString.html#v%3Ajoin
> 
> Anyone rememeber what the result of the "let's get split into the base
> library" movement's work was?

ISTR there wasn't a concensus, so nothing happened.  Which is silly, really - I 
agree we should definitely have a Data.List.split.

Cheers,
	Simon