On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Greg Weber <g...@gregweber.info> wrote: > 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.
Hmm, I would have thought that would be enough reasons not to use that method -- "wrong methods" are hard to unlearn and to get rid of. > But it is easy for students to understand since they are already being > taught to use > lists for everything else. Perhaps we are underestimating their competences and are complicating their lives unnecessarily... > It would be great if you can talk with > teachers of Haskell and figure out a better way to teach text > processing. my suspicion is teachers of Haskell would want designers of Haskell to make the good datatype for text the default :-) :-) -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
