Data.List.join

[Josef Svenningsson]

On 10/22/06, Clifford Beshers <clifford.beshers at linspire.com> wrote:
> Josef Svenningsson wrote:
> >
> > I think Jón's suggestion 'intercalate' was pretty sweet. I've chosen
> > to use that name in my patch.
>
> Could you add the definition (or a reference) to the patch?  It would be
> nice to make sure people know that the Haskell community didn't make it up.

Do you think that's really necessary? We don't have explanations for
intersperse, transpose, partition, insert, intersect, union etc. Nor
do we make excuses for names like nub or mapAccumL. Is there a
particular reason for explaining the name 'intercalate'?

All the best,

Josef