[Haskell-cafe] csv one-liner
Andrew Coppin
andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Wed Oct 1 15:51:12 EDT 2008
wman wrote:
> Long story short, I promised him a one-liner to "show the power and
> beauty of Haskell".
>
> (writeFile "output.csv") =<< (liftM printCSV $ liftM (map updateLine)
> $ parseCSVFromFile "input.csv")
>
> Is there room for improvement ?
Um... Does anybody else find it interesting that we are "showing the
beauty of Haskell" by attempting to construct the most terse, cryptic,
unmaintainable tangle of point-free code that the combined mindpower of
the entire mailing list can produce?
Yes, there is much to be said for the power and brevity of Haskell. But
you *can* go over the top here, people! o_O
Keep it short _yet comprehensible_, IMHO.
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