I started this package because there were
requests for adding new utility functions to the @base@ package,
often to the `Data.List` module.
However, adding a function to `Data.List` takes a long time
and if I actually import it,
my package depends on a new GHC version
just for the sake of a simple utility function.
It seemed more appropriate to me
to collect such functions in a simple third-party package.

Over the time, however,
many but not all functions were added to @base@ and are now in wide use.
Some functions even got fancy optimizations in @base@.
Thus some functions in this package may look outdated.
However, I keep them for compatibility.
So far, I have not removed any function.


The package contains contributions to `Data.List` by David Feuer.