[GHC] #971: Add intercalate and split to Data.List

[Josef Svenningsson]

On 10/30/06, Christian Maeder <maeder at tzi.de> wrote:
> >  = Split =
> >  Bulat Ziganshin suggested also adding a function split which is a right
> >  inverse of intercalate. Donald Steward seemed to agree with this decision.
> >  No one else raised their voice about this so it seems uncontroversial.
>
> I also agree to add a split function. The problem was to agree which
> variant should be called split (wrt. to treatment of multiple and final
> separators as well as to "Eq" context or predicate argument).
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/4862
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/4869
>
Right. I had totally forgotten about that discussion. Was there any
consensus about the names?

Josef