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1464	Proposal: add dropPrefix to Data.List	igloo		"I seem to have a copy of this function in everything I write sooner or later, so I'd like to propose its addition to Data.List. It strips a prefix from a list and, if successful, returns the tail. I often use it with pattern guards:
{{{
foo :: String -> IO ()
foo x
 | Just y <- dropPrefix ""foo="" = putStrLn (""foo is "" ++ show y)
foo _ = putStrLn ""Unknown""
}}}
but you can of course achieve the same by using case etc.

Let's try 11 July for a discussion deadline."	proposal	closed	normal	Not GHC	libraries/base	6.6.1	fixed			Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple		Unknown