thankyou.. that made more sense to me :) What im doing now is.. Im still working through the "Craft of Functional Programming" book but I've found a site that has solutions to some of the excercise questions. So i'm noting them down and trying to make sense of them
Is that a good approach? Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:38:26 +0100, Ian675 <adam_khan_...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Pretty much yeah.. Im going through the book and things like : >> >> Define a function rangeProduct which when given natural numbers m and n, >> returns the product m*(m+1)*....*(n-1)*n >> >> I got the solution from my lecture notes but I still dont understand it.. >> >> rangeProduct :: Int -> Int -> Int >> rangeProduct m n >> | m > n = 0 >> | m == n = m >> | otherwise = m * rangeProduct (m+1) n >> > > I'll try to give a clear explanation of this function: > >> rangeProduct :: Int -> Int -> Int >> rangeProduct m n > A function is defined with parameters m and n, both Int; the result of the > function is also an Int > >> | m > n = 0 > If m > n, the result is 0; the rest of the function definition will be > skipped > >> | m == n = m > If m is not larger then n, evalution continues here; if m == n, the result > of the function is m > > >> | otherwise = m * rangeProduct (m+1) n > If previous predicates were False, this branch is evaluated ("otherwise" > is always True); the function calls itself with (m+1) as first parameter > > The boolean expressions in this function are called "guards"; the right > hand side after the first guard that evaluates to True, will give the > result of the function. > > Regards, > Henk-Jan van Tuyl > > > -- > http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ > http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html > -- > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/General-Advice-Needed-..-tp27161410p27164433.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe