On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Iustin Pop wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:21:37AM -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote:
See http://hackage.haskell.org/package/split
The reason it's not in Data.List is because there are a bazillion
different splits one might want (when I was pondering the issue before
Brent released it, I had collected something like 8 different proposed
splits), so no agreement could ever be reached.
It is curious though that the Python community managed to agree on a
single implementation and include that in the standard library… So it is
possible :)
It was not the implementation, that was discussed in length, but it was
the question, what 'split' shall actually do.
If you are satisfied with a simple Haskell 98 implementation of a 'split'
operation you might like 'chop' in
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/utility-ht/0.0.5.1/doc/html/Data-List-HT.html
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