> I feel a bit guilty for my ugly wc implementation. At the moment of > writing the first version I was thinking only about efficiency, not > about elegance. [..] > We have already created on this list a version which is > fast and quite elegant at the same time, and I feel this one is better > for the shootout even if it's slower than the one currently used (but it > doesn't use unsafeRead). The good news is that the development GHC 6.3 > compiles this to code which is almost as fast as the ugly one.
I agree; the code should look reasonable - this will be many people's first sight of Haskell code. Count me as a vote for the better-but-slightly-slower wc. --KW 8-) -- Keith Wansbrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/kw217/ University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
