Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-19 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Tim, Friday, August 18, 2006, 8:23:16 PM, you wrote: I agree with that. The and = ... wasn't really an improvement over and xs = ... xs, and if the later is easier to read that's good. the main goal here is readability, of course What happened to isSpace, toLower and toUpper (, from

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-19 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:46:14PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Tim, Friday, August 18, 2006, 4:26:46 PM, you wrote: break p = span (not . p) it's definitely better and = foldr () True i think that definitions with omitted arguments can be more hrd to understand to newbie

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-18 Thread Tim Walkenhorst
[...] it's just a pleasure to see all those one-line definitions and feel how power the language should be to allow such cool things. It is indeed. I find these explicit definitions often much more instructive than purely implicit definitions. But, call me a nitpicker, some of the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-18 Thread Tim Walkenhorst
Oh my lord, I love how my newreader obfuscates my posts. = span http://undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/230.301/lectureNotes/tourofprelude.html#span p' xs where p' x = not http://undergraduate.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/230.301/lectureNotes/tourofprelude.html#not (p x) = span p'

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-18 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Tim, Friday, August 18, 2006, 4:26:46 PM, you wrote: break p = span (not . p) it's definitely better and = foldr () True i think that definitions with omitted arguments can be more hrd to understand to newbie haskellers, especiallyones who not yet know the language. as Tamas suggests,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-18 Thread Tim Walkenhorst
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: i think that definitions with omitted arguments can be more hrd to understand to newbie haskellers, especiallyones who not yet know the language. as Tamas suggests, this page can be used to present to such newbies taste of Haskell so listing all the parameters may allow to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-18 Thread Robert Dockins
On Aug 18, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Tim Walkenhorst wrote: Bulat Ziganshin wrote: i think that definitions with omitted arguments can be more hrd to understand to newbie haskellers, especiallyones who not yet know the language. as Tamas suggests, this page can be used to present to such newbies

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-18 Thread Jared Updike
I feel that Haskell is missing some basic string manipuation functions, like - replacing all occurances of one substring (or sublist) with another string (or list). - tokenize a string by an arbitrary delimeter This came up not too long ago:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-17 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:55:47AM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello haskell-cafe, The http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Special:Popularpages page lists most popular pages on haskell wiki. I think this list is very useful because it shows us what are the questions about Haskell people most

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-17 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Tamas, Thursday, August 17, 2006, 11:14:22 AM, you wrote: Haskell (252,505 views) Introduction (50,091 views) Libraries and tools (41,864 views) Books and tutorials (40,040 views) Language and library specification (32,773 views) Haskell in practice (31,698 views)

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-17 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Tamas, Thursday, August 17, 2006, 2:29:26 PM, you wrote: The link from http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Learning (to http://www.cs.uu.nl/~afie/haskell/tourofprelude.html) is dead, so is the one from Books_and_Tutorials. thank you. i have fixed both. btw, you can register himself on the

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

2006-08-16 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello haskell-cafe, The http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Special:Popularpages page lists most popular pages on haskell wiki. I think this list is very useful because it shows us what are the questions about Haskell people most interested and gives us hints what should be improved in first place.