Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Bathroom reading

2007-08-17 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
ok-4 wrote: Someone mentioned the Blow your mind page. One example there really caught my attention. 1234567 = (1357,246) foldr (\a ~(x,y) - (a:y,x)) ([],[]) I've known about lazy match since an early version of the Haskell report, but have never actually used it. Last night,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Bathroom reading

2007-08-17 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
Dan Weston wrote: I hate to be a party pooper, but isn't this just: f = foldr (\a z - (a:snd z,fst z)) ([],[]) This takes less time to grok and takes no longer to run. For each type with exported constructors, one can always write deconstructors for it, if not already found in libraries.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Bathroom reading

2007-08-16 Thread ok
Someone mentioned the Blow your mind page. One example there really caught my attention. 1234567 = (1357,246) foldr (\a ~(x,y) - (a:y,x)) ([],[]) I've known about lazy match since an early version of the Haskell report, but have never actually used it. Last night, looking at that example, the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Bathroom reading

2007-08-16 Thread Dan Weston
I hate to be a party pooper, but isn't this just: f = foldr (\a z - (a:snd z,fst z)) ([],[]) This takes less time to grok and takes no longer to run. But why stop there? import Control.Arrow swap = snd fst f = foldr (\a - swap first (a:)) ([],[]) Just read this aloud to see what it

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Bathroom reading

2007-08-14 Thread Chad Scherrer
Maybe something of these? http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind -- Chad Scherrer Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana -- Groucho Marx ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Bathroom reading

2007-08-14 Thread Aaron Denney
On 2007-08-14, Spencer Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 August 2007 10:17:53 Dougal Stanton wrote: I'm looking for cool but mind-bending examples of functional brilliance. Let us say, hypothetically, you had a bathroom without any reading material. And having read all the