#strex

This is a small library that implements some of the functions from the Data.List package in Haskell that are only applicable to strings.

##Install

$ go get github.com/djhworld/strings_ext

##Rationale

Because I enjoy programming in Haskell and want some of the standard library features found Data.List to be in Go, plus I found it an enjoyable intellectual exercise too.

Personally, I don't see the use of the empty interface to be best practise when you want to guarantee type safety at runtime. I'm a strong advocate for compile time type checking and I feel it would not be appropriate to use interface{} as a half-way house to generics.

As soon as the Go team implement generics/parametric polymorphism into the language I'll almost certainly drop this library and create a more "generic" solution akin to Data.List. For those looking to go down the interface{} route now, please see the Seq library by Bill Burdick

##Why no Map?

See strings.Map for the default implementation, although this version is NOT like Haskell's map in the sense that you can only input and output a string, no other type.

##Documentation http://go.pkgdoc.org/github.com/djhworld/strex

To the people on reddit who helped me with this code. Originally, I implemented all the functions in a Haskell like style with plenty of recursion and other inefficiencies that don't work so well in a non tail-call optimised language. With the help from the users such as "rogpeppe" I was able to tighten up the package a lot with much faster code.