Re: Writing a counter function

2002-07-01 Thread Frank Atanassow
Shlomi Fish wrote (on 29-06-02 17:30 +0300): > > I'm trying to write a counter function that would return a tuple whose > first element is the current value and whose second element is a new > counter. John Hughes showed how to do this. Here is a closely related, more abstract solution which emp

Re: Writing a counter function

2002-07-01 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Jon Fairbairn wrote: > (snip) > > But there's the rub. It's not beautiful and it doesn't make > > much sense. I really wish we could get away from the "How do > > I convert this imperative code snippet into Haskell" > > questions into