Proposal: Add &&& and *** to Data.Tuple

[Jon Fairbairn]

Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> writes:

> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
>
>> instance Arrow (->) where
>>   ...
>>   (***) = (Data.Tuple.***)
>>   (&&&) = (Data.Tuple.&&&)
>>
>> and modules that imported only Arrow (not Tuple) would see
>> no difference from the present state of affairs.  Where
>> things would be different would be if a module imported both
>> Tuple and Arrow, when, instead of a name clash, *** and &&&
>> would get their Arrow meanings (albeit with a specialised
>> instance for ->).
>
> If you import Tuple and Arrow, why not just import Arrow?

Presumably because there are functions in Tuple that aren't
in Arrow (if that isn't the case, this just means that
Tuple/Arrow isn't a very good example).

Another example would be mplus.  I happen to think that ++
is a good name for mplus, but unfortunately it's used up for
append on lists -- which, curiously enough is mplus for
lists. Examples of functions that are used at a specialised
case and as class members abound, and I'd like to see a way
round using lots of different names for the same concept.
While one /can/ use different names, or manage the problem
by using related names, to my mind use of a convention to
tame the Babel of names indicates a deficiency in the
language.

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk