[erlang-patches] Add lists:init/1 - got tired of implementing it

[Hans Svensson]

Hi,

Yesterday I implemented, for the umpteenth time, the init-function. (I 
guess being taught Haskell at one point could be blamed partly for the 
coding style requiring this function...) It is a trivial function that I 
think should be part of the standard lists module. This patch adds the 
function, tests in lists_SUITE, and documentation of the function.

The implementation is trivial: reverse(tl(reverse(List))).

If I've missed some religious reason for not having this function feel 
free to drop the patch ;-)

Cheers,
Hans

git fetch git://github.com/hanssv/otp.git add_init_to_lists

https://github.com/hanssv/otp/compare/erlang:maint...add_init_to_lists
https://github.com/hanssv/otp/compare/erlang:maint...add_init_to_lists.patch