Re: [Haskell-beginners] general observation about programming

An even more convenient (when applicable) guide to pronunciation: https://wiki.haskell.org/Pronunciation On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Jeffrey Brown wrote:

That will work in the special case of lists, but there are all sorts of other things you might want to map across.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:

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On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Jeffrey Brown wrote:

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It is, I agree, not appropriate everywhere, but point-free code can in the right place be much more readable. Maps are a good example. Compare:

map (f . g . h) xs

to

map (\x -> f $ g $ h x) xs

Not quite a fair comparison How about? [ f (g (h x)) | x <- xs ]

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