[Haskell-beginners] Re: Simplifying a 'split' function

[Ertugrul Soeylemez]

"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:

> >> How about map pure.  I do like the robot monkey though :)
> >
> > What is 'map pure'?
>
> It uses the applicative functor (Control.Applicative) instance for
> lists, just as "fmap return" uses the monad instance.  Both work out
> to the same thing.

In fact, I'd choose a combination of both,

  split = fmap pure

which seems to be most elegant to me.  It's more general than both of
them.  I just took 'return' instead of 'pure', because you don't need
any extra modules for that.


Greets,
Ertugrul.


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