export toDescList from Data.Map

[Benedikt Huber]

Evan Laforge schrieb:
> So, I mentioned this a long time ago but didn't get any responses and
> then I got distracted.  So this time I added a ticket and patch and
> everything:  2580
> 
> Here's the text:
> It's even implemented, but not exported. Without this, there's
> apparently no way to iterate over a map from high to low, since foldl
> is also not exported.

Hi,
foldl is available via the Foldable instance for Set,Map,IntMap.
And if I'm not mistaken, a 'left fold' corresponds to 'iterate from low 
to high' (try foldlM failing on the first element).

Anyway, while there is foldWithKey

 > toAscList = foldWithKey (\k v m -> (k,v) : m) []

_foldrWithKey_ seems to be missing for Map/IntMap.
I don't know if there is a performance penalty using 'reverse . 
toAscList' (e.g. in monadic traversals which stop after a few elements), 
but I suppose you were talking about the API anyway.

Finally, I'd like to see a view on the association list, something like

 > viewAssocs :: Map k v -> MapView (k,v)
 > instance Foldable MapView

which would provide 'fold[lr]WithKey[M]' in a standard way.

best regards,
benedikt