[Haskell-beginners] Use a list as data for a data type?

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 02/22/2013 03:40 PM, Bryce Verdier wrote:
> Brent,
> 
> Thank you for the responses. I appreciate it. Bummer about there not 
> being some kind of built-in/generic shortcut.
> 


You can try with a fold:

  >>> (((IpAddress $ 1) $ 2) $ 3) $ 4
  IpAddress 1 2 3 4

If you consider the type of the constructor along with the types passed
through the fold, it might become clearer why this can't work in general.