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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