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

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Donald,

Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 12:55:50 PM, you wrote:

> Question over whether it should be:
>     splitBy (=='a') "aabbaca" == ["","","bb","c",""]
>   or
>     splitBy (=='a') "aabbaca" == ["bb","c"]

> I argue the second form is what people usually want.

1) at least for 'lines' people prefer first
2) second can be easily got from the first


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