Hi Daniel,

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:57:25 +0100, Daniel Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

<snip>
Finally, in several contexts I needed to cons an element to one of a pair of
lists, so I defined

infixr 5 &,�
            ^^^
Please be aware that you won't find this paragraph symbol on a uk or us 
keyboard. AFAIK it is just on the german one.


(&) :: a -> ([a],[b]) -> ([a],[b]) x & (xs,ys) = (x:xs,ys)

(�) :: b -> ([a],[b]) -> ([a],[b])
y � (xs,ys) = (xs,y:ys).

I find them useful (though I don't like the symbols, if you have any better
ideas, thx) and for splitAt, (&) saves another reduction per step.

I think these operators should be more related to ":" like ":&" "&:" or similar. However, in my opinion this special cons operators could be just functions with a meaningful name like "consfst" and "conssnd". It would provide much more readability.

 Cheers,
        Georg

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