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authorDivay Prakash <divayprakash@users.noreply.github.com>2018-10-24 11:04:05 +0530
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-10-24 11:04:05 +0530
commit4a7d678c2553bc379542a5901177b8bb2730ce65 (patch)
treeb2896f9f02b5a752f860a71a36b1e16c566a8ed7 /haskell.html.markdown
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parent8f5a67190705c9a3101653901d8f8a7b48eb1775 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into master
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@@ -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
+
----------------------------------------------------
-- 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
+sndOfTriple (_, y, _) = y -- use a wild card (_) to bypass naming unused value
-- Pattern matching on lists. Here `x` is the first element
-- in the list, and `xs` is the rest of the list. We can write
@@ -203,11 +206,11 @@ 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.
+-- the expression on its right is applied as a parameter to the function on its left.
-- before
even (fib 7) -- false
@@ -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