Michael Mossey wrote:
If I have a list containing the arguments I want to give to a
function, is there a general way to supply those arguments in a
compact syntax?
In other words, I could have
args = [1,2,3]
f x y z = ...
I would write
t = f (args!!0) (args!!1) (args!!2)
but there may be a neater, more general syntax.
In general, the problem is that you can't guarantee ahead of time that
the list will have three elements, so however you write it, you'll turn
a compile-time error (wrong number of args to function) into a run-time
error (!! says index is invalid). The neatest way is probably:
t [x,y,z] = f x y z
Which will give a slightly better error if the list is the wrong size.
If your function takes many arguments of the same type, perhaps you
could generalise it to take a list of arbitrary size, and do away with
requiring three arguments? Alternatively, use tuples if you want an
easy way to carry the arguments around together:
args = (1, 2, 3)
f x y z = ...
uncurry3 f (x,y,z) = f x y z
t = uncurry3 f
(uncurry already exists, I think uncurry3 is one you have to add yourself).
Neil.
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