[Haskell-cafe] Is there a library that has a strict version of `sum`?

[Vanessa McHale]

Yes, writing sum' = foldl' (+) 0 in a project-specific prelude (or even
a local binding) is much more maintainable than grabbing a dependency on
a custom prelude.


On 08/14/2018 02:25 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:57 PM Damian Nadales
> <damian.nadales at gmail.com <mailto:damian.nadales at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     In view of this, I though, "I can write this replacing `sum` by
>     `foldl' (+) 0` but wouldn't be nice if this function was defined
>     already somewhere else?" That's it.
>
>
> There's a certain tendency for people to look for even trivial canned
> solutions, which to my mind misses the point of functional
> programming. It's trivial to build exactly what you need from the
> building blocks you have, so canned solutions like Prelude "sum" lead
> both to this kind of problem when they don't quite fit, and at the
> same time inappropriately encourage people to go looking for "more
> appropriate" canned solutions.
>  
> -- 
> brandon s allbery kf8nh
> allbery.b at gmail.com <mailto:allbery.b at gmail.com>
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