Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is there no splitSeperator function inData.List

2011-02-14 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:33:16PM -0800, Donn Cave wrote: It is curious though that the Python community managed to agree on a single implementation and include that in the standard library To me, it's more like 2 implementations, overloaded on the same function name. Python 2.6.2

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is there no splitSeperator function inData.List

2011-02-14 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to, ... having a dictator is not a necessary prerequisite for the ability to make decisions. It's quite possible to decide controversial matters without a dictator -- say, by letting people vote. The problem might be slightly miscast here, as an inability to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is there no splitSeperator function inData.List

2011-02-13 Thread Donn Cave
It is curious though that the Python community managed to agree on a single implementation and include that in the standard library To me, it's more like 2 implementations, overloaded on the same function name. Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 30 2009, 15:41:32) [GCC 2.95.3-haiku-090629] on