Data.List.join
Jon Fairbairn
jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sun Oct 22 08:18:27 EDT 2006
On 2006-10-22 at 12:50+1000 dons at cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart) wrote:
> Now, the name, join conflicts, so:
> * consperse
> * connect
> * intercat
> * the problem with joinWith (or whatever) is that traditionally it would be joinBy
>
> So, I propose we start with just, say, 'connect',
intercalate, surely?
OED says of intercalate:
transf. a. To insert or interpose something additional,
extraneous, or out of the ordinary course, between the
ordinary members of any series [...]
Since there's already a word that means almost exactly what
we want, why not use it?
Jón
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Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
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