On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:18 PM, wren ng thornton <w...@freegeek.org>wrote:
> On 6/25/11 6:51 AM, John Lato wrote: > > Honestly I'm quite dis-satisfied with the current state of code which > > depends on iteratee/enumerator. It's nearly all written in a very > low-level > > style, i.e. directly writing 'liftI step', or 'case x of Yield -> ...'. > > This is exactly what I would hope users could avoid, by using the > functions > > in e.g. Data.Iteratee.ListLike. > > > > I've recently added more functions to iteratee which greatly reduce the > need > > for this type of code. I don't know about enumerator, but I expect it > isn't > > rich enough since most user code I've seen is pretty low-level. > > I have a rather large suite of list-like functions for the old version of > iteratee (used by a project I've been working on for a while). Once I get > the time to convert the project to the newer iteratee, I'll send a patch > with any you're still missing. > I'd greatly appreciate it. Even if they're for the old version; doing the conversion is fairly mechanical. > (Though, admittedly, I'm not terribly keen on ListLike. The classes still > seem too monolithic and ad-hoc. Though I'm not sure there's a way around > that without something closer to ML's functor modules.) > Refactoring ListLike has been a long-standing objective of mine, but I haven't put much time into it because it would cause breaking changes which I didn't think anyone else would appreciate. No way to tell except to just release it I guess. John
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