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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Applying a function to two lists (Francesco Ariis)
2. Handling failed output (Matt Williams)
3. Re: Handling failed output (Imants Cekusins)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 15:42:06 +0200
From: Francesco Ariis <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Applying a function to two lists
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 08:50:32AM +0000, Matt Williams wrote:
> Thanks a lot for this.
>
> Just to clarify (and ignoring the flip, which I can solve by rewriting the
> checkNum function) - is this an example of currying?
Example of partial application! Currying is when you have a function like:
f :: (a, b) -> c
and transform it to:
g :: a -> b -> c
Open ghci and play a bit with `curry` and `uncurry` to get the idea!
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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 21:59:10 +0100
From: Matt Williams <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Handling failed output
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Dear All,
I am trying to work out how to handle a function that might return
different types of output. I assume I need to use either Maybe or
Either, but I can't quite get it to work.
At the moment, I have some function:
checkNum3 :: Int -> Int -> (Int,Int)
checkNum3 a b = if check a b then (a,b)
else (a,-1)
checkLists :: [Int] -> Int -> [(Int,Int)]
checkLists a b = map (checkNum3 b) a
checkAll3 :: [Int] -> [Int] -> [(Int,Int)]
checkAll3 a b = concat (map (checkLists a) b)
However, I know that checkNum3 isn't a good function - it uses setting
the second element of the tuple to -1 to signal failure, which is
obviously a recipe for problems later on. However, I want to return
either a pair of integers, or a single integer.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 23:05:05 +0200
From: Imants Cekusins <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Handling failed output
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Hello Matt,
Either Int (Int,Int) might work.
Left ... by convention indicates 'other' result.
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