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

Hah! It sure is. :) On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

Sometimes that is very hard when the writer is way smarter than the reader :-) 2009/3/24 Conal Elliott

Another helpful strategy for the reader is to get smarter, i.e. to invest

...

effort in rising to the level of the writer. Or just choose a different book if s/he prefers. - Conal

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Manlio Perillo

...

wrote:

...

Yitzchak Gale ha scritto:

...

[...] So the bottom line is that Manlio is right, really. It's just that Haskell is still very different than what most programmers are used to. So it does take a while to get a feeling for what is "too smart".

Right, you centered the problem!

The problem is where to place the separation line between "normal" and "too smart".

Your function is readable, once I mentally separate each step. For someone with more experience, this operation may be automatic, and the function may appear totally natural.

When writing these "dense" function, it is important, IMHO, to help the reader using comments, or by introducing intermediate functions.

Manlio

_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe