Re: 'lazy mindset' was: HUGS error: Unresolved overloading

2001-05-22 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
I have a case where I don't know how to apply laziness well. Consider mutable containers (e.g. STArray or a database on disk). How to iterate over them? I see the following possibilities: * Give up laziness, provide only a conversion to the list of items. Since the conversion is monadic, it

Re: HUGS error: Unresolved overloading

2001-05-21 Thread Laszlo Nemeth
Hi Mark, isSorted xs = and (zipWith (=) xs (tail xs)) In other words: When is a list xs sorted? If each element in xs is less than or equal to its successor in the list (i.e., the corresponding element in tail xs). That's right ... under cbn! At the same time David's version with

RE: HUGS error: Unresolved overloading

2001-05-20 Thread Mark P Jones
Hi David, | Can anyone shed some light on the following error? Thanks in advance. | | isSorted :: Ord a = [a] - Bool | isSorted [] = True | isSorted [x] = True | isSorted (x1:x2:xs) | | x1 = x2 = isSorted (x2:xs) | | otherwise = False I'm branching away from your question, but