Proposal #1464: add dropPrefix to Data.List

[Iavor Diatchki]

Hi,
I can see how this function can be useful.  However, I am strongly
opposed to adding the general monadic version---not all monads support
graceful failure, and for monads that do not support it, the only
option is to throw a run-time exception, which is at odds with the
purity of Haskell (which leads to headaches when you try to write
robust code).  I think that the "Maybe" version is perfectly adequate
but if we have to have an overloaded version, then we should use
"MonadPlus".
-Iavor


On 6/26/07, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> Chris Smith wrote:
>
> > Hmm.  That would replace a function I write today if only it were:
>
> +1 on the monadic variant, of which I have a copy just like Chris's.
>
>         <b
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