Proposal #2629: Data.List: Replace nub; add nubOrd, nubInt, nubWith

[Jeremy Shaw]

At Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:05:42 -0700,
Alexander Dunlap wrote:

> This seems like a good idea but it's kind of strange to have three
> different exposed versions of nub. Would it be possible to hide them,
> hide the StopList typeclass and use {-# RULES #-} pragmas to use the
> faster versions when possible?

The RULES pragma is GHC-specific. Would it make sense to export the
faster versions so that people targeting alternative compilers could
use them? 

Additionally, I think RULES only take effect if you are compiling with
optimizations, but not if you just load the files into GHCi. I have
written programs which run fine with nubOrd but are unacceptable with
nubEq. So, I would certainly want the option to force the use of
nubOrd at all times, rather than rely on the compiler to sometimes
make the required optimization for me.

j.