Proposal: more general unionWith for Data.Map
Milan Straka
fox at ucw.cz
Tue Jan 24 20:58:06 CET 2012
Hi Johan,
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Christian Sattler
> <sattler.christian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't care much about the naming, but note that the analogous
> > property already fails for the generalized intersectionWithKey in the
> > development version.
>
> I suspected as much. I think the current intersectionWithKey is
> broken. We should have a single function, mergeWithKey, that allows
> people to do the things they currently do using Maybe return values in
> e.g. intersectionWithKey.
Funnily, I just also used mergeWithKey for the "ultimate combining
function" in this thread :)
FYI, the new intersectionWithKey is not released yet -- maybe we could
leave intersectionWithKey as it is, and provide mergeWith[Key] instead.
Opinions?
Cheers,
Milan
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