Hah! It sure is. :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Peter Verswyvelen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugfact@gmail.com">bugfact@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sometimes that is very hard when the writer is way smarter than the reader :-) <div><div><div><br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/24 Conal Elliott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:conal@conal.net" target="_blank">conal@conal.net</a>></span><div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Another helpful strategy for the reader is to get smarter, i.e. to invest effort in rising to the level of the writer. Or just choose a different book if s/he prefers. - Conal<div>
<div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Manlio Perillo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:manlio_perillo@libero.it" target="_blank">manlio_perillo@libero.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yitzchak Gale ha scritto:<br>
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So the bottom line is that Manlio is right, really. It's just<br>
that Haskell is still very different than what most<br>
programmers are used to. So it does take a while to<br>
get a feeling for what is "too smart".<br>
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Right, you centered the problem!<br>
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The problem is where to place the separation line between "normal" and "too smart".<br>
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Your function is readable, once I mentally separate each step.<br>
For someone with more experience, this operation may be automatic, and the function may appear totally natural.<br>
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When writing these "dense" function, it is important, IMHO, to help the reader using comments, or by introducing intermediate functions.<br><font color="#888888">
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Manlio</font><div><div></div><div><br>
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