[Haskell-cafe] Library function for map+append

[Clemens Fruhwirth]

2009/8/18 Dusan Kolar <kolar at fit.vutbr.cz>:
> Hello all,
>
>  During a small project I'm trying to develop a small application. It
> becomes quite often that I need a function mapapp:
>
> mapapp _ [] ap = ap
> mapapp f (a:as) ap = f a : map f as ap
>
>  I tried hoogle to find such a function with no success. Is there any
> function/functions built-in "standard" libraries that could easily satisfy
> the functionality with the same or even better (?) efficiency?

Can't think of something like that either but at least we can make it
shorter and less readable ;)

mapapp f xs tail = foldr ((:) . f) tail xs

>  Of course,
> (map f list) ++ append
>  would do the same as
>
> mapapp f list append
>
>  but with less efficiency. Or am I wrong?

Yes, that is less efficient because ++ has to create N new cons cells
if "list" has length N.
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