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[aditya siram]

Does this code compile? The line  "type Sales = Sales Record" for
instance is wrong - it should be "data Sales = Sales Record".
Additionally "recordSale" returns an Int, not [Sales].

-deech

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Mrwibbly <Jackwaters89 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> This really helped, but now I am trying to add a new track to the database
> using a menu but it won't compile. I have tried a lot of different things
> but to no avail.
>
> When I get rid of the menu I am able to run, for example, newRecord "This
> Charming Man" "The Smiths" 1 []
>
> This adds the data to an empty database but I can't seem to call newRecord
> again and add another record to the existing database.
>
> Thanks for your help previously,
>
> Jack
>
> type Title = String
> type Artist = String
> type Sold = Int
> type Sales = Sales Record
> type Record = (Title, Artist, Sold)
>
>
> testDatabase :: [Sales]
> testDatabase = [(Sales "Jack" "Waters" 2)]
>
> --recordSale :: Sales -> String -> String -> Sales
> --recordSale title artist = (title, artist)
>
> newRecord :: Record -> [Sales] -> [Sales]
> newRecord title artist sold dbase = (title, artist, sold):dbase
>
> recordSale :: Record -> [Sales]
> recordSale record sales = sold + 1
>
> main :: [Sales] -> IO()
> main dbase = do
>        putStrLn "1 = Add a new record: "
>        input <- getLine
>        let x = read input :: Int
>        if x == 1
>                then do putStrLn "Please enter a title: "
>                        title <- getLine
>                        putStrLn "Please enter an artist name: "
>                        artist <- getLine
>                        putStrLn "Please enter the number sales: "
>                        sales <- getInt
>                        newRecord (Sales title artist sales []) dbase
>
>
> Holger Siegel wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 01.07.2010 um 21:56 schrieb Mrwibbly:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm having real trouble starting this project. Basically I have to create
>>> a
>>> record store that store information about artists and albums and also the
>>> number of sales that they have had. It also needs to generate a list of
>>> the
>>> top 5 sellers.
>>>
>>> So far I have: recordSale :: Sales -> String -> String -> Sales
>>>
>>> where recordSale sales anArtist aTrack returns a modified version of the
>>> sales.
>>>
>>> Any help getting started on this would be gratefully received. I don't
>>> want
>>> answers, I just want help getting started.
>>
>> First, I would state explicitly what a record is: It is a tuple of an
>> artist's name and a record's name
>>
>>   type Record = (String, String)
>>
>> Now function recordSale has type
>>
>>   recordSale :: Sales -> Record -> Sales
>>
>> This is the an "uncurried" equivalent of your definition. You can read it
>> as "from a sales object you get to another sales object via a (sold)
>> record". That already seems to be a good abstraction, but we can do
>> better: If you flip the arguments, you get
>>
>>   recordSale :: Record -> Sales -> Sales
>>
>> Now you can create a sale (recordSale ("Zappa", "Apostrophe")). This sale
>> is a function of type (Sales -> Sales) that modifies your sales. We state
>> this by defining
>>
>>   type Sale = Sales -> Sales
>>
>>   recordSale :: Record -> Sale
>>
>> Sales can be concatenated with the dot operator (.) and there is even a
>> "neutral sale", the function 'id'. Thus, you know immediately that for any
>> sales x,y,z there is (x . (y . z) == (x . y) . z) and (x . id == x). In
>> other words, it forms a monoid - just like the number of sales together
>> with (+) and 0!
>>
>> If you're only interested in the number of sales, you can simply define
>>
>> type Sales = Integer
>>
>> recordSale record sales = sales + 1
>>
>> But you don't want to keep track of the whole number of sales - you want a
>> number for every record you have sold. That means, you need a data
>> structure that maps records to their number of sales:
>>
>> import Data.Map
>>
>> type Sales = Map Record Integer
>>
>> It's a bit tricky to find an implementation for recordSale. Think of how
>> you can combine two arbitrary Sales objects before you try to implement
>> it.
>>
>> Regards, Holger
>>
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