Proposal: Add chop function to Data.List

[Brent Yorgey]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 05:17:43PM +0000, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> I would like to propose the following function for inclusion in Data.List
> 
> chop :: (a -> (b, [a]) -> [a] -> [b]
> chop _ [] = []
> chop f as = b : chop f as'
>   where (b, as') = f as

I've just uploaded a new version of the 'split' package which exports
chop.  If it does get added to Data.List (of which I'm in favor)
I'll remove it from split.

-Brent