Proposal #3999: Improved folds for Data.Map and Data.IntMap

[Roman Leshchinskiy]

On 24/04/2010, at 04:16, Louis Wasserman wrote:

> In the meantime, to refocus attention on the original proposal.... ;)

Yes, sorry sidetracking the thread.

> {-# INLINE [0] pairCons #-}
> pairCons :: ((a, b) -> c -> c) -> a -> b -> c -> c
> pairCons = curry
> 
> {-# RULES
> 	"Data.Map.toAscList->build" [~1] toAscList = \ m -> GHC.build 
> 		(\ c n -> foldrWithKey (pairCons c) n m);
> 	#-}
> 
> Since the normal definition of toAscList is just foldrWithKey (curry (:)) [], there's no need to rewrite it back to toAscList.

I'm not sure why you don't just use curry directly here. Also, why not just implement toAscList like in the rule and INLINE it?

Roman