Comments on: Adventures in Haskell, Part 2: Kewlness

By: huisho

huisho — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:35:50 +0000

your “parentheses argument” counts only to those who doesn’t know lisp. here is very simple truth:

Q: How can you tell when you’ve reached Lisp Enlightenment?
A: The parentheses disappear. — Anonymous

josh — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:19:06 +0000

Thank you for the nice monad examples/explanation.

Hello Haskell — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:00:03 +0000

one reason your Lisp parens are ugly are that you’re trying to use C bracket indentation with Lisp parens. This is generally not advised.

Sam Danielson — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:09:39 +0000

> Personally, I like this one best:
> (reverse . map (3*) . filter odd) [1..10]

On the topic of preference, I prefer the following direct translation to a list comprehension. Now there are no ().

reverse [3 * x | x <- [1..10], odd x]