I am sure this has been asked and formulated somewhere else. I don't
know what the name of it is.

Let G be a set of groups. Given a list `l =: l_1 ... l_2` and a
property `p` such that `p l_i` is in G, I would like a function `f`
which partitions `l` into the successive maximally contiguous runs
`r_1 ... r_k` such that for each `i`, `r_i` is a substring of `l`,
there exists one `g` in G such that all `p r_ij = g` and the
concatenation of `r_1 ... r_k` is equal to the original `l`.

Examples:

l = _1 _2 0 1 2 _1 4 5 _6`
p = <&0

f l = _1 _2 ; 0 1 2 ; _1 ; 4 5 ; _6

;. gets close, but one would need to specify where groups end possibly
by comparing successive pairs of applications of `p`. Those positions
would somehow need to be indicated as frets.

/. gets close, but concatenates separate runs within the same group.

Is this trivial, or should I write my own code for this?
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