On 22/04/07, Nikolay Metchev
Hello guys, I have decided to try and get back into Haskell recently. I have used it in the past but have forgotten large chunks. I am trying to express the logic of a particular card game. For this purpose I need to be able to order cards in various orders. At first I thought that the Ord class was my answer but I found it very verbose. Below is my best attempt so far but I can't help but feel it too is verbose and that there must be a better way of comparing cards in different orders.
I wrote some code for comparing poker hands that you may find useful [1]. It gives each hand a classification, and then orders first on the classification, and then on some secondary property of the classification (eg, highest card in hand). - Joe [1] http://www.lambda-software.com/darcs/programming-challenges/2.8.2/poker.hs