generalization of maybeToList

[Nils Anders Danielsson]

On 2012-02-14 22:02, Brent Yorgey wrote:
> What is the "Fairbairn threshold"?  I tried doing a Google search for
> it, and all I got was a bunch of messages from libraries at haskell.org
> (all of which only *referenced* it, without defining it).

I believe that the term refers to what Jón Fairbairn wrote in the
following message:

   Names for small functions: just say no... Re: Data.List.join
   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/5280/focus=5355

Ross Paterson seems to have coined the term later the same day in a
message to the same mailing list:

   proposed addition to System.IO
   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/5325/focus=2029

For those following the list at the time it should have been obvious
what the term referred to.

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