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List:       haskell
Subject:    Re: deleteBy
From:       Alex Ferguson <abf () cs ! ucc ! ie>
Date:       1999-12-08 21:40:24
Message-ID: 199912082137.VAA28929 () joyce ! ucc ! ie
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S. Alexander Jacobson:
> Can we stop polluting the namespace with list based function
> definitions?  Most of these functions: delBy, filter, map, concat, length,
> take, takeWhile, etc. are well specified for data structures other than
> lists.  Regardless of whether Haskell includes generic programming
> extensions, it would be nice to be able to use these function names for
> the same operation in other datastructures (even if they are implemented
> manually). 

That seems a tad harsh:  given that the proposal was for an extension
to the _List_ library, adding list based functions seems neither
inappropriate, nor to pollute 'the' namespace.

Let's hear it for qualified imports!

Sl&#xC3;&#xA1;n,
Alex.



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