Reading Simple Haskell

Re:Reading Simple Haskell by hoprocker on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:34PM (#15887594)

Agreed -- I found Haskell most confusing at first because of the lack of syntax. My brain kept wondering where the rest of the syntax was. Not to be too dramatic, but I think Haskell is kind of like programming "poetry" in this regard.

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Re:Reading Simple Haskell by leshow on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:10AM (#15890360)

When I first start I though there was so MUCH syntax, (->), (<*>), (<$>), (>>=), (.), ($), etc

I realized pretty early on all these were just functions, that was cool experience for me. Even the types are sort of functions.

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Re:Reading Simple Haskell by lalaithion on Sunday December 10, 2017 @03:03AM (#15890491)

One fun thing is how -> is basically just an infix operation that takes two types as arguments and returns a new type.

add :: (->) Int Int add x y = x + y

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Re:Reading Simple Haskell by leshow on Sunday December 10, 2017 @04:37AM (#15890676)

It's the function type, data (->) a b. It is commonly written in infix notation though.

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