Re:It never makes sense to use foldl on lists in Haskell (2019)
by didibus on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:41PM
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It be shallow with a Singly Linked List too no? What inherently makes a Singly Linked List better at addressing this problem if it contains mutable elements?
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Re:It never makes sense to use foldl on lists in Haskell (2019)
by toolslive on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:39PM
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Typically, in a functional language, values are immutable.
So if you cons to a list, you create a new value that has the current list as its tail. Since all lists are immutable, they can be shared and there's no need for a deep copy.
Python is not a functional programming language....