Why would you want to take such a complicated approach to such a trivial problem?
I am dissecting Chapter 2 of Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design. By implementing the "tails" function in this divide-and-conquer method, the author is able to create a fascinating algorithm. /Roger -----Original Message----- From: David Place [mailto:d@vidplace.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:26 AM To: Costello, Roger L. Cc: beginners@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Creating beautiful code: can you make this divide-and-conquer implementation of the "tails" function beautiful? On Jun 28, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
Note: I am trying to clean up this divide-and-conquer algorithm, not create a different algorithm. Sorry that I wasn't clear about this in my initial message.
Perhaps the problem in the code is this choice of approach. Why would you want to take such a complicated approach to such a trivial problem? Especially since it's also less efficient.