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

[Jake McArthur]

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Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
| Maybe it's just me, but I think that
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| takeList ns xs = evalState (mapM (State . splitAt) ns) xs
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| or even
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| takeList = evalState . map (State . splitAt)
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| would be much clearer than both versions.

Definitely. I stuck with only the functions that were already being used
because I figured the point was to make things readable with a limited
set of building blocks. Thanks for sharing though. That was definitely
not a solution that I was thinking of.

- - Jake
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