[Haskell-cafe] First Question

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On 3/19/06, Neil Rutland <neilrutland2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I am completely new to this so my apologies if some of the questions are ill
> described/directed, but if they are just let me know and i'll try and make
> the relevent changes.
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> I chose this one as it seemed the right sort for me with my (rudimentary
> knowledge), the first question is probably very simple but a bit of a jump
> for my brain.
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> Basically i want to add two user entered numbers together to calculate the
> number of stops between two traint stations so i think i would define that
> as so:
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> stops :: int->int->int
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> I think that says that the function stops takes two integers and returns an
> integer.
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> What i'm not entirely sure of is how i'd then write the function itself
> because i literally want it to have the following form
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> stops (x,y) = x+y
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I think you're looking for:

stops x y = x+y

Or use your own definition and change the type to stops:: (Int,Int) -> Int
It's generally recommended not to send the parameters of your function
as a tuple (like you're doing) but rather "one at a time" like the
example I gave above.

/S


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