[Haskell-cafe] Very crazy

[Andrew Coppin]

Dougal Stanton wrote:
> In this instance I would suggest:
>
> (1) Text.Printf
>   

You've got to be kidding... I went to all the trouble of learning a 
"scary logic programming language [sic]" just to avoid that damned 
printf() function! :-/

> (2) Pull out some of those things into separate functions with
> where/let clauses.
>
> If it's a matrix you should probably have something like
>
>   
>> showMatrix = concatMap showRow
>>     
>
> Since you'll be applying the same procedures to each line of digits.
>   

Well, actually more like

  show_matrix = concat . zipWith show_row [1..]

but yeah, this would probably simplify things somewhat.