Thomas Hartman wrote:
Is there a way to do
<perl one-liner gibberish>
as a shell command that idiomatically uses haskell?
I used to do those in Perl, too, years ago. I switched to the readable step-by-step style of the Python shell when I moved from Perl to Python. It is a whole different mentality about how to work, but in the end it is equally powerful and beautiful. Now that I am a Haskell person, I find that the Python style is a perfect fit for Haskell shells such as GHCi. The :def command in GHCi makes this really powerful (though I find that I rarely need that much power). You can kind of fake the one-liner style in Python, but it is awkward. I assume that the same would be true in Haskell (though I admit that I never tried it very seriously). Unless you define all kinds of single-character abbreviations, in which case why not just use Perl? Regards, Yitzchak