On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Greg Weber <g...@gregweber.info> wrote:
>> Problem: we want to write beautiful (and possibly inefficient) code >> that is easy to explain. If nothing else, this is pedagologically >> important. >> The goals of this code are to: >> * use list processing pattern matching and functions on a string type > > I may have missed this question so I will ask it (apologies if it is a > repeat): Why is it believed that list processing pattern matching is > appropriate or the right tool for text processing? Nobody said it is the right tool for text processing. In fact, I think we all agreed it is the wrong tool for many cases. But it is easy for students to understand since they are already being taught to use lists for everything else. It would be great if you can talk with teachers of Haskell and figure out a better way to teach text processing. > > > -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
