Names for small functions: just say no... Re: Data.List.join

Samuel Bronson naesten at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 13:57:19 EST 2006


On 11/10/06, Robert Dockins <robdockins at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I'm don't thing your criteria (which seems to be related to the ease with
> which the function is defined in terms of other, pre-existing functions) is a
> good discriminator for what should and what should not be in the standard
> libraries.

I don't think so either. It certainly doesn't seem to categorize most
of the libraries. Is this another case of the bikeshed problem?


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