> In any case, as a newbie, I can tell you that I found the fib > function puzzling as stated. > > > ...and not to show a "canonical" version of Fibonacci > > Nonetheless, it seems to have become the canonical version. For > example, see the list of references to this version on Google: > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22zip+fib+%28tail+fib%22. > > This is perhaps unfortunate since fib is a kind of "hello world" for > Haskell and other FP languages.
Well, I cannot speak for the other references, since I did not write them :-). On the other hand, stream processing *is* a stylistic way to write certain kinds of functional programs, with the idea of replacing an iteration with a stream. But I agree that this particular example should not be the equivalent of "hello world". (Of course, for that, one would just write: print "hello world" :-) -Paul _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
