Proposal: keep Data.Map.foldWithKey

[Gregory Collins]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Sittampalam, Ganesh
<ganesh.sittampalam at credit-suisse.com> wrote:
> This isn't aimed at you specifically, but I suggest that if someone
> objects to a proposal on the grounds that an alternative route is
> better, they should actually propose that so that we can have a proper
> debate between the alternatives.

I agree. Patch attached.

Side note: there are tons of long lines and lines with dangling
whitespace in these files. It could use a cleanup. I also fixed the
docstrings for Data.Map.foldlWithKey and Data.Map.foldrWithKey.


> Removing foldWithKey from IntMap would (arguably) require foldrWithKey
> and foldlWithKey to be exposed instead. It seems Milan raised this in
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2010-September/014410.html
> and there was no objection, but nothing further was done.

So symmetry (assuming one agrees it's so important to have it in the
first place) is still broken anyways if we roll back the "foldWithKey"
deprecation?

G
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Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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