Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Jon Fairbairn wrote: > (snip) > > But there's the rub. It's not beautiful and it doesn't make > > much sense. I really wish we could get away from the "How do > > I convert this imperative code snippet into Haskell" > > questions into "How do I solve this abstract problem?" > > The question as originally posed didn't seem like it particularly needed > something imperative though.
That largely misses the point. My objection is to the mindset behind the question. > the first bit is very similar to, say, > > counter a = (a, \to_add -> counter (a + to_add)) Which looks to me like imperative programming. Indeed, the Monad answer that I posted is imperative programming, it just happens to be done in Haskell. Stepwise transformation of a state is, on some occasions, the right answer to a problem. Unfortunately in this thread we haven't been told what the problem is. The question is of the form "how do I make a hammer?" when a hammer is rarely the most appropriate tool. That's what I'd like to get away from. Jón -- Jón Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 31 Chalmers Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge CB1 3SZ +44 1223 570179 (after 14:00 only, please!) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
