18 Jul
2007
18 Jul
'07
1:56 a.m.
On Jul 17, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
maxsubarrays = maximumBy (compare `on` sum) . (>>= tails) . inits
Though I avoided using the list monad in the first solution, since I thought it would make the code less understandable for a beginner.
I felt uncomfortable seeing this. Let me see if I can explain why. Isn't the use of monads here unnecessary and obscure? The use of inits, tails and maximumBy ground the function to a list representation. There seems no hope of generalizing it to other monads. The use of >>= is just an obscure way of saying (flip concatMap). ___________________ (---o-------o-o-o---o-o-o----( David F. Place mailto:d@vidplace.com