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

Code like that is why I love Haskell, while I haven't written a Haskell program in years it is still a joy to read (much more so than the pretty good zipWith version). In reference to later comments: if you don't know Monads, you don't know Haskell; that goes double for high order functions. So really the only place where this code may be inappropriate is in a beginner tutorial (unless you are trying to show why they need to learn more!). C Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:

takeList ns xs = evalState (mapM (State . splitAt) ns) xs

or even

takeList = evalState . map (State . splitAt)