Generalise type of deleteBy

[Matthew Pickering]

Malcolm, the semantics of deleteBy are slightly different as it only
deletes the first occurrence. In the end however I did use `filter` as
I didn't
care particularly about just deleting the first matching value, as
there was at most one matching value in the whole list.

Joachim, it seems to me that `deleteBy` is the odd one out as the
types of `sortBy` and `maximumBy` are the most general types.

Anyway, this function is not used very often. I searched on hackage
and there were less than 50 uses. There is a simple patch which I have
provided and people are welcome to merge if they like but I don't
think we should spend a lot of time arguing about this or worrying
about potential breakage.

Matt



On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com> wrote:
>
> On 11 Sep 2016, at 17:19, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
>>
>> I do not see why deleteBy should have an argument for the deleted element, anyway, since it is not even the element to delete (only an equivalent one). Wouldn't a function with type
>>
>> newDeleteBy :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a]
>>
>> be much more straight-forward?
>
> It already exists, and is called "filter", modulo the sense of the boolean.
>
> Regards,
>     Malcolm
>
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