Proposal: alpha-rename the type signatures of foldl, foldl', and scanl to be consistent with foldr and scanr

Edward Kmett ekmett at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 19:23:56 CEST 2012


I'd be against a version of this proposal that actually switched to
multi-character names.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Gábor Lehel <illissius at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This is true, but these are merely alpha-renaming changes, so
> >> the only negative consequence is bikeshedding.
> >> I suggest we restrict the scope of this discussion to
> >> changing (at most) only list functions in the base package.
> >
> > Just to throw some salt in the fire and open another can of beeswax, I
> > usually use 'accum' for this things.
> >
>
> A fire? Where? Is that safe with all the emails lying about?
>
>
>
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