[Haskell-cafe] list comprehansion performance has hug different

[Junior White]

Thank you everyone! I like Haskell because the following two reasons:
1. It is beautifully
2. There are many great guys like you here.

I will work harder on it, and forgive me for my broken English.



On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Junior White <efiish at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks for your reply!  I must learn more to fully understand what's
>> going on inside the list comprehension.
>> But when I frist learn Haskell, it says sequence doesn't matter, but now
>> it is a big matter, can compiler do some thing for us? I think this
>> behavior is not friendly to newbies like me, I will take a very long time
>> to work through it.
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> Good point.  Being a programmer means having to juggle many hats -- two
> important ones being the mathematician-hat and the machine-hat, also called
> declaration and 'imperation'  Get only the first and your programs will run
> very inefficiently.  Get only the second and your program will have bugs.
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> Specifically in the case of list comprehensions the newbie needs
> - to practice thinking of the comprehension like a set comprehension and
> ignoring computation sequences
> - to practice thinking of comprehension in terms of map/filter etc ie
> operationally
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> Both views are needed.
> Rusi
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