Proposal #2717: Add nubWith, nubOrd

[Isaac Dupree]

Mitchell, Neil wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> Were we to keep it, do you have a better naming suggestion?
> 
> [Warning: untested code]
> 
> filterAccum :: (acc -> x -> (acc,Bool)) -> acc -> [x] -> (acc, [x])
> filterAccum f a [] = (a, [])
> filterAccum f a (x:xs) = (an, [x|b]++rest)
>    where (a2,b) = f a x
>          (an,rest) = filterAccum f a2 xs
> 
> This follows the type of mapAccumL, and is more general than your
> function.

can we call it filterAccumL then?  It took me a while to 
figure out from the code whether it was truly an "L" or "R" 
version, and in principle there could be filterAccumR 
(although I don't know why we'd want it)

> You could change the utility function to be (acc -> x ->
> (acc,Maybe y)) to get a variant that is more general than both mapAccum
> and filterAccum.

in which case the result type would be (acc, [y]), and it 
would have a similar type and semantics to
Data.Maybe.mapMaybe :: (a -> Maybe b) -> [a] -> [b]

.. maybeAccumL? :-)

-Isaac