[Haskell-beginners] Is there an idiom for this?

[Frerich Raabe]

On 2015-11-16 12:44, Mark Carter wrote:
> Suppose I want to use an argument twice, as for example in the expression:
> (\x -> (pred1 x) and (pred2 x))
> 
> Is there a shorter way of doing this?

I suppose you meant to write '&&' instead of 'and'?

You can write it in an applicative style as

   (&&) <$> pred1 <*> pred2

If you like, you can shorten that a bit using 'liftA2' as

   liftA2 (&&) pred1 pred2

but I personally tend to like the former version better.

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