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

[Jonathan Cast]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 22:33 +0300, Eugene Kirpichov wrote:
> 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.

I wouldn't immediately guess the purpose of the function written in any
way.

I think, in general, the best way to document the purpose of the
function is

    -- | Split a function into a sequence of partitions of specified
lenth
    takeList :: [Int] -> [a] -> [[a]]

jcc