Re: how to write a simple cat

1999-06-04 Thread Hans Aberg
At 14:18 +0200 1999/06/04, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez wrote: >> >A ``category with + and ^ '' is called cartesian closed aditive >> >category, cf MacLane, Category Theory for the Working Mathematician >> >> Is this a suggestion or a theorem? > >A definition. I did not see the connection between the +

Re: how to write a simple cat

1999-06-04 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Friedrich Dominicus wrote: > That might be good advice but I/O is one of the most essential things > and I have to know how to use it proper for writing small skripts. Actually, you can do a lot without learning about I/O. The function `interact' converts a `String->String' function into an IO

Re: how to write a simple cat

1999-06-04 Thread Mariano Suarez-Alvarez
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Hans Aberg wrote: > >A ``category with + and ^ '' is called cartesian closed aditive > >category, cf MacLane, Category Theory for the Working Mathematician > > Is this a suggestion or a theorem? A definition. -- m

Re: how to write a simple cat

1999-06-04 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
> > So after I read in a chunk form that file > > into one large String, lines splits that line on a '\n' position. The > > lines li are filtered and l is one line a String-List which is added to > > fl all the filterd lines are then put back into on large String. Uff. Is > > that nearly correct?

Re: how to write a simple cat

1999-06-04 Thread Friedrich Dominicus
> > Then split it up like you'd do in an OO language. I think, FP also > is good for writing small functions that do one thing well, and then > composing them in various ways (as you see, composing functions (and > perhaps also values) in Haskell is possible in very many various ways :-) ). > >

Re: how to write a simple cat

1999-06-04 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 08:12:04AM +0200, Friedrich Dominicus wrote: > [...] > this seems to to the thing I would like it to do. I now have to check if > the given fn is valid and raise an error if not so I do think I'll make > it;-) No you don't have to check fn. readFile checks and thr

Re: Church numeral madness

1999-06-04 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
I have proposed a hand-made, ugly variant of subtraction code for the Peano-Church arithmetic with an explicit recursive function and equality. Christian Sievers put me into order, thanks. Christian Sievers: > Compared to using equality, I think the following is really better: > dec n = fst (n