Christian Maeder wrote:
Donald Bruce Stewart schrieb:
Question over whether it should be:
splitBy (=='a') "aabbaca" == ["","","bb","c",""]
or
splitBy (=='a') "aabbaca" == ["bb","c"]
I argue the second form is what people usually want.
Yes, the second form is needed for "words", but the first form is
needed for "lines", where one final empty element needs to be removed
from your version!
Prelude> lines "a\nb\n"
["a","b"]
Prelude> lines "a\n\nb\n\n"
["a","","b",""]
Prelude.lines and Prelude.unlines treat '\n' as a terminator instead of a
separator. I'd argue that this is poor design, since information is lost ie
lines . unlines === id whereas unlines . lines =/= id whereas if '\n' had
been properly conceived of as a separator, the identity would hold.
So I vote for the first option ie:
splitBy (=='a') "aabbaca" == ["","","bb","c",""]
Regards, Brian.
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