[Haskell-cafe] Mutual recursive data types

[Luke Palmer]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:54 AM, rodrigo.bonifacio
<rodrigo.bonifacio at uol.com.br> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I have the following data types:
>
>  type Id = String
>  type Action = String
>  type State = String
>  type Response = String
>
>  data Scenario = Scenario Description [Step]
>  data Step = Step Id Scenario Action State Response
>
>  So, there is a mutual recursion between Scenario and Step. Now, consider the following function:
>
>  xmlScenario2Scenario :: XmlScenario -> Scenario
>  xmlScenario2Scenario (XmlScenario description steps) =
>   Scenario  description [xmlStep2Step x | x <-steps]
>
>  How can I send "scenario" as an argument for xmlStep2Step?

Like this:

   let scenario = Scenario description [xmlStep2Step scenario x | x <- steps]
    in scenario

>  I've tried let and where but I get in a loop.

So it sounds like you already tried what I suggested.  If you get in a
loop, then whatever you are doing is too strict to handle this kind of
self-reference.  But it's hard to give suggestions without seeing more
of the code.

Luke