On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:31:01 +0200, Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> wrote:

One half-baked quasi-solution is to use:

#define head (\xs -> case xs of { (x:_) -> x ; _ -> error("head: empty list at"++__FILE__++show __LINE__)})

Downsides are that it depends on CPP, and, CPP being a C preprocessor,
it doesn't blend well with lines with single apostrophes on them (e.g.:
head x')

-k

There is a Haskell solution: cpphs[0], you can invoke this preprocessor by specifying the flags
  -cpp  -pgmPcpphs  -optP--cpp
for GHC.

Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cpphs


--
http://Van.Tuyl.eu/
http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html
Haskell programming
--

_______________________________________________
Haskell-Cafe mailing list
Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Reply via email to