Proposal #2659: Add sortOn and friends to Data.List

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

>>     groupOn         :: Eq b => (a -> b) -> [a] -> [[a]]

I don't know how other people use groupBy, but I'm almost always looking 
for something of the the type

Eq b => (a -> b) -> [a] -> [(b,[a])]

I just bring this up as something to think about.  It is easy to construct 
from groupOn, however it is almost as easy to construct from groupBy.  So 
groupOn doesn't really gain me much. :)

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