Paul Moore wrote: > On 28/11/2007, Ben Franksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It was fun, too. For instance, the OP's question reminded me of a little >> generic wrapper I wrote -- more or less for my own amusement -- during >> the course of this project. It outputs dots during an operation that >> might take a little longer to finish (a database query in my case)... >> just so the user doesn't get nervous ;-) And because I enjoyed it so much >> (and to show off) I threw in the timing measurement... > [...] >> I think nobody in his right mind would even try to do something like that >> in C or Perl or whatever, at least not if it wasn't strictly a >> requirement and correct operation is important (the script gets executed >> as part of our build process and a subtle concurrency bug could lead to a >> wrong configuration for the target control system). In Haskell it was so >> easy to do that I just couldn't resist. > > That's a neat idea. Just (a) because I like the idea, and (b) because > I'm contrary :-) I coded up the equivalent in Python. It also looks > beautifully clean: > [snipped python code]
Looks good to me. I' walk back on the "or whatever" with regard to Python... ;-) Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
