On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:29:55PM +0300, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
> Maybe it's just me, but I think that
>
> takeList ns xs = evalState (mapM (State . splitAt) ns) xs
>
> or even
>
> takeList = evalState . map (State . splitAt)
>
> would be much clearer than both versions.
I love it! It wouldn't occur to me to utilize State like this (too used
to thinking of it as a black box rather than whats inside of it). quite
a lot of useful information to learn can be expressed in a line of
haskell. sort of like a zen koan. :)
John
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