[Haskell-cafe] Re: Returning a list element?

2006-03-22 Thread Dominic Steinitz
Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au writes: mainMenu = sequence_ $ map putStrLn [line1, line2, line3] I argue if you want to sequence_ a map you should write mapM_: mapM_ putStrLn [line1, line2, line3] Nice mapM is under-appreciated? More under-appreciated are line

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Returning a list element?

2006-03-21 Thread Dominic Steinitz
Robert Dockins robdockins at fastmail.fm writes: FYI, putStrLn will automatically insert a newline for you, and the final 'return ()' is unnecessary. My favorite idiom for this kind of thing is: mainMenu = putStr $ unlines [ line 1 , line 2 , line 3 ] Or how about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Returning a list element?

2006-03-21 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
dominic.steinitz: Robert Dockins robdockins at fastmail.fm writes: FYI, putStrLn will automatically insert a newline for you, and the final 'return ()' is unnecessary. My favorite idiom for this kind of thing is: mainMenu = putStr $ unlines [ line 1 , line 2 ,