On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Dan Piponi wrote: > On Nov 13, 2007 1:24 PM, Ryan Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tend to prefer where, but I think that guards & function declarations are > > more readable than giant if-thens and case constructs. > > Up until yesterday I had presumed that guards only applied to > functions. But I was poking about in the Random module and discovered > that you can write things like > > a | x > 1 = 1 > | x < -1 = -1 > | otherwise = x
Btw. I would write here min 1 (max (-1) x) or even better define a function for such clipping, since it is needed quite often. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
