Data.List.join

[Jon Fairbairn]

On 2006-10-22 at 12:50+1000 dons at cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart)  wrote:
> Now, the name, join conflicts, so:
>     * consperse
>     * connect
>     * intercat
>     * the problem with joinWith (or whatever) is that traditionally it would be joinBy
> 
> So, I propose we start with just, say, 'connect',

intercalate, surely?

OED says of intercalate:

   transf.  a. To insert or interpose something additional,
   extraneous, or out of the ordinary course, between the
   ordinary members of any series  [...]

Since there's already a word that means almost exactly what
we want, why not use it?

 Jón


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Jón Fairbairn                              Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk