[Haskell-cafe] about Haskell code written to be "too smart"

[Eugene Kirpichov]

Pretty cool once you know what the function does, but I must admit I
wouldn't immediately guess the purpose of the function when written in
this way.

2009/3/24 Miguel Mitrofanov <miguelimo38 at yandex.ru>:
>> | As an example, with the takeList function I posted.
>>
>> I looked at it, found nothing wrong with the original, and absolutely
>> hated your "fixed" version. I might have written it like this, instead:
>>
>> ~    buildPartitions xs ns = zipWith take ns . init . scanl (flip drop)
>> xs $ ns
>
> Maybe it's just me, but I think that
>
> takeList ns xs = evalState (mapM (State . splitAt) ns) xs
>
> or even
>
> takeList = evalState . map (State . splitAt)
>
> would be much clearer than both versions.
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Eugene Kirpichov
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