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| author | Alex Grejuc <grejuca@oregonstate.edu> | 2018-07-10 15:12:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Alex Grejuc <grejuca@oregonstate.edu> | 2018-07-10 15:12:23 -0700 |
| commit | 8c30522d58e6c006274952a75c5acd4d104c8828 (patch) | |
| tree | 9056bfd8332613b3ed99bc061328a0cbeb8d9495 | |
| parent | 0d211d341913305bd1d97e5d097898eb7faa1354 (diff) | |
added info about tuples, integrated wild card use into a function definition
| -rw-r--r-- | haskell.html.markdown | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/haskell.html.markdown b/haskell.html.markdown index 266cf11b..cad036f1 100644 --- a/haskell.html.markdown +++ b/haskell.html.markdown @@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ last [1..5] -- 5 fst ("haskell", 1) -- "haskell" snd ("haskell", 1) -- 1 +-- pair element accessing does not work on n-tuples (i.e. triple, quadruple, etc) +snd ("snd", "can't touch this", "da na na na") -- error! see function below to get around this + ---------------------------------------------------- -- 3. Functions ---------------------------------------------------- @@ -159,8 +162,8 @@ fib 1 = 1 fib 2 = 2 fib x = fib (x - 1) + fib (x - 2) --- Pattern matching on tuples: -foo (x, y) = (x + 1, y + 2) +-- Pattern matching on tuples, using wild card (_) to bypass naming an unused value +sndOfTriple (_, y, _) = y -- Pattern matching on lists. Here `x` is the first element -- in the list, and `xs` is the rest of the list. We can write @@ -203,9 +206,9 @@ foo = (4*) . (10+) foo 5 -- 60 -- fixing precedence --- Haskell has an operator called `$`. This operator applies a function --- to a given parameter. In contrast to standard function application, which --- has highest possible priority of 10 and is left-associative, the `$` operator +-- Haskell has an operator called `$`. This operator applies a function +-- to a given parameter. In contrast to standard function application, which +-- has highest possible priority of 10 and is left-associative, the `$` operator -- has priority of 0 and is right-associative. Such a low priority means that -- the expression on its right is applied as the parameter to the function on its left. @@ -223,7 +226,7 @@ even . fib $ 7 -- false -- 5. Type signatures ---------------------------------------------------- --- Haskell has a very strong type system, and every valid expression has a type. +-- Haskell has a very strong type system, and every valid expression has a type. -- Some basic types: 5 :: Integer |