[Haskell-cafe] some ideas for Haskell', from Python

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Dougal Stanton <ithika at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (defun avg (&rest args)
>>   (/ (apply #'+ args) (length args)))
>>
>> Or as a macro like this:
>>
>> (defmacro avg (&rest args)
>>   `(/ (+ , at args) ,(length args)))
>>
>> The reason the macro is better is that the length of the list is known at
>> compile time, so you don't need to traverse the list to calculate the length
>> of the list.
>>
>
>
> I'm trying to work out how awesome the (+) operator is that you can
> add the values together without needing to traverse the list ;-)
>

     Don't need to traverse the list at run time, not compile
(actually macro-expansion) time.

Cheers,
-- 
-alex
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