Data.List.join

[Simon Marlow]

Josef Svenningsson wrote:
> 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.

The Haskell report used to explain 'nub' (my 1.1 report has the comment, but it 
seems to be lost in '98).

Cheers,
	Simon