Why speak nonsense when you can test it? // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
module nonsense import StdEnv nonsense = map ((^) 2) Start = nonsense [1,2,3] // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- .... Running gives: [2,4,8] Best wishes Stephen 2009/11/8 L Spice <jadenb1...@yahoo.com>: > John van Groningen <johnvg <at> cs.ru.nl> writes: > >> Doaitse Swierstra wrote: >> >One of this differences between Haskell and Clean I did not see mentioned in > this discussion is that Clean >> does not allow so-called partial parametrisation. I.e. all function calls >> have > to be fully saturated >> >> I don't understand what you mean. Can you give an example ? >> >> Kind regards, >> >> John van Groningen > > I think the idea was that Clean doesn't support a syntax like "map (**2)" for > a > function that will take a list and square its elements. The call to map there > is not fully saturated, since it's waiting for another argument. > > (As a disclaimer, I've not used Clean, so I could be speaking nonsense; it's > just how I read the original statement.) > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
