"Christian Stork" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:49:26PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> A more descriptive name than 'partition' would be 'split_at'.
>
> 'split_at' is really what's happening. (I came up with it independently
> of Greg, if t
I know I'm coming too late to this discussion, but just for completeness
sake let me mention that the OCaml standard List module uses 'partition'
already in the sense that most mathematically educated people would
understand it:
val partition : ('a -> bool) -> 'a list -> 'a list * 'a list