[Haskell-beginners] Re: Problem implementing a stack

Maciej Piechotka uzytkownik2 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 05:56:05 EST 2009


>     data Stack a = Top (Stack a) | Layers [a] deriving (Show)

Sorry I'm asking - but why Stack is either a 'Stack or List' - shouldn't
it be either plain list or list-lile structure:

data Stack a = EmptyStack | Stack a (Stack a)
(unless you're training 'data' I'd say newtype Stack a = Stack [a])

Otherwise Top (Top (Layers [])) is a stack (yet it does not fit into
rest of the functions) or even fix Top (i.e. Top (Top (Top (Top (...)
Unless it have some reason of course.

Regards




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