Re: [Haskell-cafe] about Haskell code written to be "too smart"

* Manlio Perillo wrote:

But this may be really a question of personal taste or experience. What is more "natural"?

1) pattern matching 2) recursion or 1) function composition 2) high level functions

Composition of library functions is usually much more readable than hand written recursion, simply because the typical idiom is highlighted instead of checking yourself, that there is no strange matching against the obvious case. Composition of library functions is usually much more efficient and preferable than hand written recursion, simply because the fine tuned fusion capabilities.