Yves Parès <[email protected]> wrote:

> >     Note about []:  Don't even mention foldl.  The folding
> > combinator for lists is foldr, period.
>
> Yes, I do agree. I came to this when I realized foldr gave the church
> encoding of a list.

Not only that.  The foldr combinator has an identity fold and implements
actual structural recursion.  The point is to give an idea what
structural recursion means.  I usually also introduce a custom tree
type, again with a folding combinator.


> (Well, actually, due to parameters ordering:
>     *churchList list* z0 f = foldr f z0 list
> does)

Yes, the argument ordering of our foldr is a bit unfortunate.


Greets,
Ertugrul

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