[Haskell-beginners] general observation about programming

[Jeffrey Brown]

That will work in the special case of lists, but there are all sorts of
other things you might want to map across.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown.the at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It is, I agree, not appropriate everywhere, but point-free code can in
>> the right place be much more readable. Maps are a good example. Compare:
>>
>>     map (f . g . h) xs
>>
>> to
>>
>>     map (\x -> f $ g $ h x) xs
>>
>
> Not quite a fair comparison
> How about?
> [ f (g (h x))  |  x <- xs ]
>
>
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Jeffrey Benjamin Brown
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