2009/3/24 Conal Elliott <conal@conal.net>

Another helpful strategy for the reader is to get smarter, i.e. to invest effort in rising to the level of the writer. Or just choose a different book if s/he prefers. - Conal

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo@libero.it> wrote:

Yitzchak Gale ha scritto:

[...]

So the bottom line is that Manlio is right, really. It's just
that Haskell is still very different than what most
programmers are used to. So it does take a while to
get a feeling for what is "too smart".

Right, you centered the problem!

The problem is where to place the separation line between "normal" and "too smart".

Your function is readable, once I mentally separate each step.
For someone with more experience, this operation may be automatic, and the function may appear totally natural.

When writing these "dense" function, it is important, IMHO, to help the reader using comments, or by introducing intermediate functions.

Manlio

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