[Haskell-beginners] Do I understand this well

Brent Yorgey byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Tue Jun 28 18:45:47 CEST 2011


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:49:46PM +0000, Roelof Wobben wrote:
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> ________________________________
> > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:14:28 +0100 
> > Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Do I understand this well 
> > From: colinpauladams at gmail.com 
> > To: rwobben at hotmail.com 
> > 
> > No. 
> > 
> > You are onfusing defining a function with using it. 
> > 
> > 
> > addVectors (x1, y1) (x2, y2) = (x1 + x2, y1 + y2) 
> > 
> > defines the function addVectors 
> > 
> > (x, y) = addVectors (3.0, 4.5, -3.4, -5.6) 


Shouldn't that be  

  (x, y) = addVectors (3.0, 4.5) (-3.4, -5.6)

?

-Brent



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