[Haskell-beginners] Rewriting bits of a data structure

[Adrian May]

Hi All,

I have a lot of ugly code like this:

data Thing = Thing Int Int Int Int Int
rewriteFourth :: Int -> Thing -> Thing
rewriteFourth x (Thing a b c _ e) = Thing a b c x e

Is there a better way?

It was thinking about state monads that reminded me of this junk that I'd
already written a while ago. Maybe it can be done by applying five StateT
transformers, but I'm not entirely sure how to write that, or if there's a
simpler fix.

TIA,
Adrian.
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