Hey Jason, would you mind giving a short idea of what the point of Bird's implementation is / from what properties it is derived?
Also, running the QuickCheck tests you added, it doesn't give the same output (order) as nub. On 15/07/13 13:26, Jason Dagit wrote: > Richard Bird has a book, "Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design" that > is meant to teach a form of deriving algorithms from the properties we > ask of them. In this book, he gives a possible derivation of ordNub, > simply called nub in the book, following the methodology he is > teaching. He notes in the text that this derivation feels more > complicated than it ought. > > Here is his version: http://lpaste.net/87625 > > I just sent you a pull request to add that one and S.toList . > S.fromList that was suggested in this thread. I don't think those two > implementations are faster than the others but it's nice to have them > for completeness. > > Jason > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
