[Haskell-cafe] Language complexity & beginners

[Joachim Durchholz]

Am 09.02.2016 um 18:24 schrieb Kosyrev Serge:
>>>    foo (thInt (fromIntegral (c2hsValueInt cexp))) (thInt (fromIntegral (c2hsValueInt cexp)))
>>
> I clearly made a mistake of duplicating a real expression.. should have
> picked two different expressions for an example.

The counterexamples still work.

This:

foo (thInt1 (fromIntegral1 (c2hsValueInt1 cexp1))) (thInt2 
(fromIntegral2 (c2hsValueInt2 cexp2)))

can still become this:

let int1 = thInt1 (fromIntegral1 (c2hsValueInt1 cexp1))
     int2 = thInt2 (fromIntegral2 (c2hsValueInt2 cexp2))
in foo int1 int2

and that's perfectly readable in my book.

If you don't like the nested parentheses, use function composition:

let fn1 = thInt1 . fromIntegral1 . c2hsValueInt1
     fn2 = thInt2 . fromIntegral2 . c2hsValueInt2
in foo (fn1 int1) (fn2 int2)

Function composition isn't the main tool though; I found that naming 
subexpressions always works, plus the names can help with readability if 
they are chosen wisely.