Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:21:53PM +0000, Alistair Bayley wrote: >> Wouldn't this have been better called "unique"? (analogous to the Unix >> program "uniq"). I was looking for a "unique" in the GHC Data.List library a >> few days ago, and didn't see one, so I wrote my own (not realising that was >> what "nub" did).
BTDT. > No, Unix uniq makes only a single pass. > uniq = map head . group > Hmm, but with that said, I don't think I disagree with you. Renaming > "nub" to "unique" makes it clear that it is similar, but not identical > to what Unix "uniq" does. And of course the traditional Unix idiom for "nub" is 'sort | uniq' (or (uniq . sort) if you prefer) -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
