[Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

Tamas K Papp tpapp at Princeton.EDU
Sat Aug 19 06:10:09 EDT 2006


On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:46:14PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Tim,
> 
> Friday, August 18, 2006, 4:26:46 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > break p = span (not . p)
> 
> it's definitely better
> 
> > and = foldr (&&) True
> 
> i think that definitions with omitted arguments can be more hrd to
> understand to newbie haskellers, especiallyones who not yet know the
> language. as Tamas suggests, this page can be used to present to such
> newbies taste of Haskell so listing all the parameters may allow to
> omit unnecessary complications in this "first look into language"

I think I learned to understand and appreciate omitted arguments from
Hal Daume's Yet Another Haskell Tutorial.  The exercises there are
just great.

Tamas


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