On 28 Jan 2008, at 11:00 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jonathan Cast wrote:
Or, to put it another way, the bugs Java's stack overflow is designed
to catch are considered good style in Haskell.
I consider explicit recursion in Haskell as bad style. One should use
higher order functions like 'map', 'fold', 'filter' and so on
whereever
possible. Even if one needs explicit recursion one should separate the
traversal through a data structure from the particular operation
applied
to the elements.
Maybe so, but this approach is impossible in Java (and not just
because of the limitation on the size of the stack). Imperative
programs tend to rely on a small number of loop constructs repeated
over and over again; good style in Haskell is in part recognizing
when new constructs are preferable and implementing them
(recursively). It's a completely different mindset.
jcc
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