[Haskell-cafe] Re: Java or C to Haskell

[Jón Fairbairn]

Carajillu <crespi.albert at gmail.com> writes:

> That works good, but I have a problem with the return type, I forgot to
> mention... can it be a [char]??

If that's what you want, how about this:

   import Maybe
   find_match l1 l2 c
       = fmap catMaybes . sequence $ zipWith match l1 l2
         where match a b
                   | a == c = Just (Just b)
                   | a == b = Just Nothing
                   | otherwise = Nothing

although part of the reason for writing it like that is to
make you work hard to understand it ;-) ... and it returns
Maybe [Char] since I can't bring myself to use "" to
indicate failure... but judicious use of catMaybes
. concat. maybeToList might help with that.

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk