Re: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function

Thanks all! There's ALWAYS seems to be a neat way to do what's needed with Haskell. Michael --- On Tue, 10/6/09, Joe Fredette wrote: From: Joe Fredette Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Creating an alias for a function To: "michael rice" Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 10:03 PM Well, you can drop the arguments entirely, and let the type be inferred to get     car = head which is pretty nice. You could use an INLINE hint to make the compiler replace it before compilation, though I don't think it would change performance much... /Joe On Oct 6, 2009, at 10:01 PM, michael rice wrote:

How do I create an alias for a function, like giving CAR the same functionality as HEAD. I know I can do it by creating a definition (see below), but is there a better way, like Scheme's

(define head car)

car ::  [a] -> a car x = head x

The reason for doing this is to more closely mirror legacy code.

Michael

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