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

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Sep 29, at 18:55, Alexander Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:40 AM, apfelmus  
> <apfelmus at quantentunnel.de> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> I don't think that using RULES pragmas is a good solution to the  
>> problem.
>
> Why not? I thought that was the major purpose of RULES - to implement
> transformations that don't affect semantics. It seems silly to clutter

So what of yhc, nhc98, jhc?  ghc is not the be-all and end-all of  
Haskell.

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