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

[Peter Verswyvelen]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> But it only works out nicely because the ordering of the components of the
> pair returned by splitAt matches the ordering that the state monad expects
> (and I can never remember which way around they are in Control.Monad.State).
>

Now you mention this, I often had to write a little function

swap :: (a,b) -> (b,a)

It seems many other authors have done the same in their own modules. Maybe
this should be part of the Prelude?


>
>
> Try doing it with mapAccumL, which is arguably the right abstraction, but
> has the components the other way around.
>
> Cheers,
>        Simon
>
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