Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
go ahead... be a heretic
 
PerlMonks  

comment on

( [id://3333]=superdoc: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

I had the pleasure of studying with Paul Hudak, the creator of Haskell, and I remain highly intrigued by the language. I like your introduction a lot. A couple of things I would add in the relevance-to-Perl department:

  • foldl is a lot like reduce in the List::Util module, which I believe will be a builtin in Perl 6.
  • I believe there is a Perl implementation of lazy lists. Update: Per the reply below, it is Language::Functional.
  • something I'm not thinking of

Also, I know you're trying to keep it reasonably short, but I think it would be really cool to show an example of constructing recursive polymorphic types, and the fact that you can have different data constructors with completely different type arguments. In other words, the fact that in Haskell you can implement large parts of your program logic just by the way you design your types.

I like the lazy factorial example. My favorite lazy expressions in Haskell were the fibonacci sequence:

fib :: [Integer] fib = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fib (tail fib)

and the function for inserting commas in a string of digits according to standard notation:

inschar n c = foldr1 (\s1 s2 -> s1 ++ c : s2) . map (take n) . takeWhile (not . null) . iterate (drop n) commaize :: String -> String commaize = reverse . inschar 3 ',' . reverse

In reply to Re: RFC: A Perlesque Introduction to Haskell, Part One (DRAFT) by Errto
in thread RFC: A Perlesque Introduction to Haskell, Part One (DRAFT) by FoxtrotUniform

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
    <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
  • Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
  • Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.
Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others wandering the Monastery: (5)
As of 2024-04-18 20:22 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found