From November, 13th 2017 to June, 9th 2018, a friend and I were working our way through the 1285 pages of “Haskell Programming – from first principles” by Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki. That’s more than six pages per day! While reading and discussing, I took a few notes here and there, which I want to publish in this post. Some of the sentences are directly taken from the book, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn Haskell, by the way. Continue reading Notes on “Haskell Programming – from first principles”
Tag: Haskell
Making “Slice” Pointfree
Let the Haskell function slice be defined as
slice :: Int -> Int -> [a] -> [a] slice from len xs = take len (drop from xs)
It takes to integral values, marking the beginning and the length of a sub-list, which is sliced out of the third parameter (a list). Applied to strings, this function may be known as substring. Here are some examples, illustrating what it does:
Prelude> slice 2 3 [0..9] [2,3,4] Prelude> slice 2 10 [0..9] [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
The goal is, to make slice pointfree, i.e. write it as slice = ..., and thereby illustrate the systematic approach of doing so. Continue reading Making “Slice” Pointfree
Haskell BNF Parser
This is a brief update about a project I have been working on lately. It’s my first bigger Haskell project, and about parsing a Backus-Naur form (BNF) expression and returning it in JSON format. More formally, this can be seen as compilation between two languages, namely BNF and JSON. Continue reading Haskell BNF Parser