Haskell

The Entropic Thoughts blog has a new post: “Non-Obvious Haskell Idiom: ViewPattern Argument Transform” regarding something I didn’t know existed in Haskell, and it touches upon something I’ve written about before so I’d like to say how they are related, and wonder whether this is the correct solution, I don’t have a better one. So first the new feature in Haskell is a “ViewPattern argument transform”. What is one of those? Well suppose you have a function such as: ...

Cracking post on the Elm discourse by john_s in response to rupert’s question regarding “intensely monadic code”. In his response john_s details some findings from a review of 300k lines of Purescript/Haskell code: In surveying over 300K lines of PureScript / Haskell code in 4 large applications I believe the most genuinely needed monadic binds I ever saw in any properly sized function was 4 and was 1 on average!!!. In other cases, ...