[Haskell-cafe] Re: Grokking monads by not overlooking concatMap

Peter Hercek phercek at gmail.com
Mon May 5 13:01:15 EDT 2008


Peter Hercek wrote:
> Achim Schneider wrote:
>> Haskell wins the wickedness of design contest by using [()] and [] as
>> truth values.
> 
> Maybe you wanted to say: "... by using [()] as True value and [] as
>  False value" ... which does not seem that wicked (at least to me).

Oops sorry, missed you say "truth" and not "true" :-D
Still not more wicked as 0 meaning False and non-zero meaning True in C.



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