Ketil Malde schrieb: [...] >>> I don't think there would be any doubt what 'deleteBy (<= 5) [1..10]' >>> would do. >> Well, if you don't know about filter, you could think it deletes all >> elements satisfying the predicate, but apart from that, it's clear. > > I'd probably call it 'filter1', but that's just my personal convention.
I've called it 'deleteFirst' in http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3399 I would expect it to be more efficient than filter (with a negated predicate), because no further comparisons are necessary once the element to be deleted has been found. C. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
