[Haskell-cafe] Fucntion composing

Adam Krauze ajschylos at mac.com
Mon Apr 11 11:22:51 CEST 2011


Hello,
as I am newbie to Haskell  and my introductory question is:

given functions say f and g with type signatures

f :: (Num a) => [a] -> [a] -> [(a,a)]  // f takes two lists and zips them into one in some special way
g :: (Num a) => a -> [(a,a)] -> [a]  // g using some Num value calculates list of singletons from list of pairs

of course  g 0 :: (Num a) => [(a,a)] ->[a]

now I want to create function h :: (Num a) => [a] -> [a] -> [a] in such way

that (g 0) consumes output of f.

But when I try 

Prelude> :t (g 0).f

I get an error:

<interactive>:1:9:
Couldn't match expected type `[(a0, a0)]'
                with actual type `[a1] -> [(a1, a1)]'
    Expected type: [a1] -> [(a0, a0)]
      Actual type: [a1] -> [a1] -> [(a1, a1)]
    In the second argument of `(.)', namely `f'
    In the expression: (g 0) . f

In pointfull representation it works well

Prelude> let h x y = (g 0 (f x y))

How to do pointfree definition of h?

Ajschylos.



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