[Haskell-beginners] Looking for alternative practices suggestions

[Christopher Done]

On 4 August 2011 23:53, Michael Litchard <michael at schmong.org> wrote:
> I'm finding that in more than one instance I pass a data structure to
> a function, simply so that I can pass it to it's helper function. It
> bugs me that I'm passing a value that isn't being used directly. This
> seems wrong. Example: I have a "data URLSequence" that contains a way
> to calculate the ip address of a URL. This gets passed to a helper
> function that generates a particular URL, which then populates the
> URLSequence. Is there a standard practice to avoid what I am talking
> about? Or is this normal and I should accept it?

There is implicit parameters[1], but personally I bite the bullet in
cases like this as it doesn't happen so often.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.3/html/users_guide/other-type-extensions.html#implicit-parameters