[Haskell-cafe] The C Equiv of != in Haskell miscommunication thread

Jason Dagit dagit at codersbase.com
Tue May 29 21:40:05 EDT 2007


On 5/28/07, Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> This thread should end, guys. It is inappropriate for the Haskell lists,
> and appears to have been a simple misunderstanding anyway.
>
> Thanks everyone. Please stay friendly!
>
> -- Don
>
> P.S. Have some cute code:
>
>     Control.Monad.Fix.fix ((1:) . scanl (+) 1)

Speaking of cute code, I'm fond of this:

map length . List.group . Control.Monad.Fix.fix $ show

And other (longer) variations which generate only powers of two.  It's
a great conversation starter for teaching about fix.

Jason


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