Re: [Haskell-cafe] Implementing parental using blood type

One thing I would suggest, as far as "Haskell style", is to make even short programs like these into libraries. You don't need to write a main function to test or even run such a simple program, and if you write it as a library, you can re-use it. On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Rafael Almeida wrote:

Good idea. Attached is the best solution I could think of. I think it reads quite elegantly :)

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote:

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:16:31PM -0300, Rafael Almeida wrote:

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I'm trying to practice my Haskell. So I had the idea of making a program which, given a mother's and a child blood type, it can determine whether a certain father is possible or not.

Please take a look on this gist with my implementation:

https://gist.github.com/aflag/14429dfb2e89791a44e2#file-parentaltesting

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Would you care to comment on it? It looks a bit cumbersome to my eyes.

I'm

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trying to find the most intuitive and elegant way of do it. I'm not so much worried with performance.

Since your 'main' function returns a Bool (possible/impossible), a simpler way to approach the problem is to calculate the potential blood-type of child C given parents A and B and then check the actual blood-type passed against this list (I attach a .hs with such solution).

The 'cumbersome' part is the |Genes -> BloodType| conversion (and vice-versa); you can calculate the inverse instead of typing it out, but it will still be cumbersome.

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