[Haskell-cafe] A functor for two Peano systems

[Aaron VonderHaar]

> That approach isn't working for you, and it's trying the patience of the
cafe. (These are sub-beginner level q's, please use the Beginners'
forum....)

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AntC, your replies are not at all polite, and you seem to be misinformed of
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--Aaron V.



On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 4:19 PM Anthony Clayden <anthony_clayden at clear.net.nz>
wrote:

> > This whole exercise is my attempt to translate *The Littler MLer* and
> its last chapter where they go into functors.
>
> That approach isn't working for you, and it's trying the patience of the
> cafe. (These are sub-beginner level q's, please use the Beginners' forum.
> And I'd forgotten that's what you're doing. Your first post in this thread
> should have said you're talking about ML functors.
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2030863/in-functional-programming-what-is-a-functor#:~:text=In%20the%20ML%20family%20of,programmers%20have%20difficulty%20with%20it. says
> "most beginning programmers have difficulty with [functors]".)
>
> I suggest you first go through a Haskell tutorial, and get your knowledge
> secure of idiomatic Haskell. Even so, I just don't believe you're coming
> from idiomatic ML. Unless 'The Little MLer' is giving it as obfuscated
> code, and the objective is to de-obfuscate it.
>
> I'd code your `plus2` with pattern-matching:
>
> > plus2 :: MyNum -> MyNum -> MyNum
> > plus2 MNZero m = m
> > plus2 (OneMoreThan n') m = OneMoreThan $ plus2 n' m
>
> Your test for `(x == MNZero)` inside helper function `pCessor` is useless:
> flow-of-control doesn't take the outer `else` branch unless `x` (i.e. `n`)
> is _not_ equal `MNZero`.
>
> Similar redundant code in the case for `Int`. But that has bigger
> problems, as Olaf points out: `Int`s can be negative. So if `plus` is
> called with a negative `n`, it'll call `pCessor` repeatedly until stack
> overflow (or numeric underflow).
>
> AntC
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