Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
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Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
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Re: Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
#2Oh wow, that is so wrong and so beautiful.
Re: Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
#3This has no business being at the top of HN.
Re: Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
#4This has no business being at the top of HN.
Why not? Seems pretty damn cool to me.
Edit: didn't realise you were the author :)
Re: Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
#5This has no business being at the top of HN.
Not everything has to be related with entrepreneurship. It is a hacker news after all...
EDIT: just realized you're the author, so your comment must be out of modesty. Anyway, it deserves, and kudos to you ;)
Re: Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
#6This has no business being at the top of HN.
Why not? Seems pretty damn cool to me. Edit: didn't realise you were the author :)
As its creator, I would certainly agree. Still, I'd feel bad if some poor soul considered it anything but an interesting demonstration of Ruby's capabilities.
Re: Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not? Seems pretty damn cool to me. Edit: didn't realise you were the author :)
As its creator, I would certainly agree. Still, I'd feel bad if some poor soul considered it anything but an interesting demonstration of Ruby's capabilities.
Btw, it would be great if you add some comments there. What are the key (all of it?) parts? etc...
Re: Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
#8Cue to Haskell people lamenting the fact that this is an abomination and not by any means "Haskell-style list comprehensions".
Still very nice though.
Re: Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
#9It's neat that Ruby has programmable syntax like this, but Haskell's comprehensions are one of its worst syntactic features IMHO. They're inherently non-composable.
Re: Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby
#10Cue to Haskell people lamenting the fact that this is an abomination and not by any means "Haskell-style list comprehensions". Still very nice though.
Haskell person here... I personally find Haskell list comprehensions to be ridiculously ugly, and are an unnecessary bit of syntactic sugar over the List Monad.