Remove maybePrefixMatch, using stripPrefix instead

[ghc-hetmet.git] / compiler / utils / Util.lhs

diff --git a/compiler/utils/Util.lhs b/compiler/utils/Util.lhs
index 62ab5f9..3de52b6 100644 (file)
--- a/compiler/utils/Util.lhs
+++ b/compiler/utils/Util.lhs
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ module Util (
 
         -- * Comparisons
         isEqual, eqListBy,
-        thenCmp, cmpList, maybePrefixMatch,
+        thenCmp, cmpList,
         removeSpaces,
 
         -- * Transitive closures
@@ -664,15 +664,6 @@ cmpList cmp (a:as) (b:bs)
 \end{code}
 
 \begin{code}
--- This (with a more general type) is Data.List.stripPrefix from GHC 6.8.
--- This definition can be removed once we require at least 6.8 to build.
-maybePrefixMatch :: String -> String -> Maybe String
-maybePrefixMatch []    rest = Just rest
-maybePrefixMatch (_:_) []   = Nothing
-maybePrefixMatch (p:pat) (r:rest)
-  | p == r    = maybePrefixMatch pat rest
-  | otherwise = Nothing
-
 removeSpaces :: String -> String
 removeSpaces = reverse . dropWhile isSpace . reverse . dropWhile isSpace
 \end{code}