S. Alexander Jacobson:
> Can we stop polluting the namespace with list based function
> definitions? Most of these functions: delBy, filter, map, concat, length,
> take, takeWhile, etc. are well specified for data structures other than
> lists. Regardless of whether Haskell includes generic programming
> extensions, it would be nice to be able to use these function names for
> the same operation in other datastructures (even if they are implemented
> manually).
That seems a tad harsh: given that the proposal was for an extension
to the _List_ library, adding list based functions seems neither
inappropriate, nor to pollute 'the' namespace.
Let's hear it for qualified imports!
Sl�n,
Alex.
