[Haskell-cafe] Naming scheme for partial functions

[Atze van der Ploeg]

unprovenLast ?
On Jan 30, 2014 6:33 PM, "Michael Snoyman" <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:

> Greg Weber and I have been discussing some changes to mono-traversable[1].
> One of the modules we provide is Data.NonNull, which provides total
> versions of functions like `last`. A change we're looking at would require
> having a partial version of `last` defined in a separate typeclass
> (IsSequence), which would allowing for more optimized implementations of
> the total `last` function for datatypes which support it (e.g., strict
> ByteStrings).
>
> But what should we name it? I'm sure everyone's familiar with the `unsafe`
> naming convention, but that's not appropriate here: standard usage shows
> `unsafe` meaning a function which can cause a segfault.
>
> I initially named it `partialLast`, but partial can also imply partial
> function application. Greg brought up the idea of suffixing the function
> with something like `Throws` or `Errors`, which I think I'm a bit partial
> to myself[2].
>
> So my questions are:
>
> * Is there some already used naming scheme out there for partial functions
> which I've missed?
> * Do people have any ideas to throw into the mix?
>
> Michael
>
> [1] https://github.com/snoyberg/mono-traversable/pull/21
> [2] Pardon the pun.
>
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