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diff --git a/haskell.html.markdown b/haskell.html.markdown index 9847ef2a..e0489710 100644 --- a/haskell.html.markdown +++ b/haskell.html.markdown @@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ contributors: - ["Adit Bhargava", "http://adit.io"] --- -Haskell was designed as a practical, purely functional programming language. It's famous for -its monads and its type system, but I keep coming back to it because of its elegance. Haskell -makes coding a real joy for me. +Haskell was designed as a practical, purely functional programming +language. It's famous for its monads and its type system, but I keep coming back +to it because of its elegance. Haskell makes coding a real joy for me. ```haskell -- Single line comments start with two dashes. {- Multiline comments can be enclosed -en a block like this. +in a block like this. -} ---------------------------------------------------- @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ not False -- True -- rest of the elements of this "infinite" list don't exist yet! Haskell won't -- actually evaluate them until it needs to. - - joining two lists +-- joining two lists [1..5] ++ [6..10] -- adding to the head of a list @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Nothing -- of type `Maybe a` for any `a` -- While IO can't be explained fully without explaining monads, -- it is not hard to explain enough to get going. --- When a Haskell program is executed, the function `main` is +-- When a Haskell program is executed, `main` is -- called. It must return a value of type `IO ()`. For example: main :: IO () @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ main' = interact countLines sayHello :: IO () sayHello = do putStrLn "What is your name?" - name <- getLine -- this gets a line and gives it the name "input" + name <- getLine -- this gets a line and gives it the name "name" putStrLn $ "Hello, " ++ name -- Exercise: write your own version of `interact` that only reads @@ -401,7 +401,9 @@ Hello, Friend! ``` -There's a lot more to Haskell, including typeclasses and monads. These are the big ideas that make Haskell such fun to code in. I'll leave you with one final Haskell example: an implementation of quicksort in Haskell: +There's a lot more to Haskell, including typeclasses and monads. These are the +big ideas that make Haskell such fun to code in. I'll leave you with one final +Haskell example: an implementation of quicksort in Haskell: ```haskell qsort [] = [] |