[Haskell-cafe] A round of golf

[Creighton Hogg]

Hey Haskell,
So for a fairly inane reason, I ended up taking a couple of minutes
and writing a program that would spit out, to the console, the number
of lines in a file.  Off the top of my head, I came up with this which
worked fine with files that had 100k lines:

main = do
 path <- liftM head $ getArgs
 h <- openFile path ReadMode
 n <- execStateT (countLines h) 0
 print n

untilM :: Monad m => (a -> m Bool) -> (a -> m ()) -> a -> m ()
untilM cond action val = do
 truthy <- cond val
 if truthy then return () else action val >> (untilM cond action val)

countLines :: Handle -> StateT Int IO ()
countLines = untilM (\h -> lift $ hIsEOF h) (\h -> do
                                                lift $ hGetLine h
                                                modify (+1))

If this makes anyone cringe or cry "you're doing it wrong", I'd
actually like to hear it.  I never really share my projects, so I
don't know how idiosyncratic my style is.