purescript/purescript-strings

Rename `Data.String.CodePoints.singleton` to `fromCodePoint`

menelaos opened this issue · 2 comments

menelaos commented

What do you think about renaming the singleton function in Data.String.CodePoints to fromCodePoint?
I believe this would increase discoverability for people coming from JavaScript and also be closer to fromCodePointArray that is defined in the same module.

michaelficarra commented

I agree that it may be more discoverable for JavaScript programmers, but those familiar with Haskell and similarly-styled libraries would expect singleton. We could add an alias, but I don't really think it's worth it. Besides, we have Pursuit, which allows searching by types.

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chexxor commented

It might make sense to add to the Data.String.CodePoints.singleton function docs something like Names of similar functions in other languages: fromCodePoint.