[Haskell-beginners] general observation about programming

[Jeffrey Brown]

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On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown.the at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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