On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Simon Michael
<simon@joyful.com> wrote:
Hugo,
I thought "this Hood stuff is so old, there's no point checking hackage". Silly me! I did cabal update; cabal install GHood on this mac and tried your example:
As an example, just import Debug.Observe (the GHood one), run ghci and type
runO $ print $ (length . observe "List Int" .concat) [[1,2],[3,4]]
and it fired up the graphical Java applet without any further setup. Very nice!
I don't yet know what a hylomorphism is and thought your pointless-haskell package might be one of those semi-joke projects, but now I wonder if it's something that I'll need in order to use (G)Hood with real-world code.
It shouldn't be. Pointless Haskell is for point-free programming and it is quite arguable if that is real-world Haskell. The main advantage is that it is easier to reason about programs, that is why it recursion patterns such as hylomorphisms are fun.
But by no means you need it for using (G)Hood in your applications.
I guess I'll find out. Thank you!
Cheers,
hugo