How do you use Data.Text.intersperse :: Char -> Text -> Text?

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Carter, you might want to take a look at Elixir's standard library, 
which (in my experience) has a good position when it comes to graphemes 
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/String.html

Le 27/06/2021 à 15:58, Carter Schonwald a écrit :
> More deeply, it doesn’t suffice to guarantee you’re gonna have a well 
> formed unicode sequence!
>
> It’d need to be grapheme -> text -> text  right?
>
> I’ve def wanted to dig into how to make programming more grapheme 
> oriented for text at some point.  I think swift explcitly does this in 
> their standard libraries ?
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:37 AM Ivan Lazar Miljenovic 
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com <mailto:ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 12:44, Andreas Abel
>     <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de <mailto:andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>> wrote:
>
>          > `intersperse :: Char -> Text -> Text`
>
>         Yeah, that looks silly indeed.  Should be pruned or marked as
>         spam.
>
>
>     "Spam" is a bit harsh.  And it does indeed have some use (albeit
>     primarily with test suites and quite possibly more efficient ways
>     to do the required task anyway):
>     https://github.com/search?l=Haskell&q=Text.intersperse&type=Code
>     <https://github.com/search?l=Haskell&q=Text.intersperse&type=Code>
>
>
>         On 2021-06-27 01:33, Andrew Lelechenko wrote:
>         > I know applications for `intercalate :: Text -> [Text] ->
>         Text`: `unwords`, `unlines`, etc. But what is `intersperse ::
>         Char -> Text -> Text` good for? Am I correct assuming that its
>         sole merit is to mimic `Data.List` API? Note that
>         `Data.List.intersperse` is polymorphic and is exceedingly
>         rarely used for `Char -> String -> String`.
>         >
>         > Best regards,
>         > Andrew
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