Effective Haskell (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

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lambdacalculator
@RebeccaSkinner Both module statements in the code examples on pp. xvii and xviii in the Introduction (“Following Along with Example Cod...
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@RebeccaSkinner On page 198, when phantom types are introduced, when listing other changes to the code example at hand, also this necess...
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vvnurmi
@RebeccaSkinner The book seems to be missing an import statement like λ import HaskellBook.Examples.Introduction.CreatingModules (Name ...
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vvnurmi
the (<>) operator would get passed to the function show instead of the string we get back when we say show 1. I think it should ...
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tusktenon
@RebeccaSkinner On p.61 in Chapter 2, the following is described as finding “the sum of the first ten odd numbers”: λ (foldr (+) 0 . fi...
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javabean68
Title: Effective Haskell - Kindle Edition Chapter: 1 Section: Precedence, Operators, and Fixity In the first expression, ((((((add add)...
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jrinaldi
@RebeccaSkinner Currently, it is: sumOfUniques n = ​ foldr (add n) (additiveIdentity n) . unique n It should be: sumOfUniques n = ​ ...
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MeEd
@RebeccaSkinner At the bottom of page 31 when let is added to the example greeting I cannot get the example to work. I’ve tried rechecki...
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andre
Refer to pages 508-511 I get an infinite loop when running the original parseArchive function, after adding a variable called "archiveD...
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vvnurmi
the (<>) operator would get passed to the function show instead of the string we get back when we say show 1. I think it should ...
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vvnurmi
@RebeccaSkinner On page 198, when phantom types are introduced, when listing other changes to the code example at hand, also this necess...
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vvnurmi
@RebeccaSkinner The book seems to be missing an import statement like λ import HaskellBook.Examples.Introduction.CreatingModules (Name ...
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lambdacalculator
@RebeccaSkinner Both module statements in the code examples on pp. xvii and xviii in the Introduction (“Following Along with Example Cod...
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Author Spotlight Rebecca Skinner @RebeccaSkinner Welcome to our latest author spotlight, where we sit down with Rebecca Skinner, auth...
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andre
@RebeccaSkinner Thanks you for this beautiful book. Chapter 8 - p.317 3rd paragraph from the bottom If you build your application and ...
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pennychase
In toCsv (ePub p 157, dropLeadingComma will leave a leading space. In the case statement, the first case is ‘,’:s’ → s’ and it should be ...
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molleweide
@RebeccaSkinner, page 141. calculator. I suggest you explain a little more about why you introduced the Left and Right types in the Cal...
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yaronf
“You’ll notice that in all of the examples so far, we’ve created lists that only contain numbers” - this is incorrect, one of the first e...
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pennychase
@RebeccaSkinner In Effective Haskell Chapter 11 (~ p 410 in ePub), when creating the Encode and Decode instances for String, pack and un...
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pennychase
Effective Haskell Chapter 8 getTerminalSize (Epub p 243) used pure in the case statement and return in the definition of tputScreenDime...
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pennychase
Defining Functor for Either Section (p. 270 ff ePub): The discussion of the kind error seems as thought kinds have not been introduced ...
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molleweide
@RebeccaSkinner, Allright, so I have put all of the example code for Calculator in chapter 4 on page ~140 in a file and when loading it ...
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juhp
@RebeccaSkinner In beta 9.0 A small typo near the bottom of p83: “but it there are some extra moving parts” Probably"it" should be dr...
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molleweide
Hi @RebeccaSkinner, In for example the Calculator segment of chapter 4, if I run the examples in GHCI this error is returned: λ: Ad...
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pennychase
In the description of the algorithm for truncateStatus, the third bullet says “If the length of the status line is longer than the displa...
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slayd
Please use the following format for the title of this thread (then simply delete/replace this text with the content for the thread): Eff...
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pennychase
@RebeccaSkinner In the “Creating New Variables” section of Chapter 1, it says that you can’t reassign variables once defined. But new Ha...
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molleweide
This is just a general note on UI and helping with the book. pragprog should make it easier for me as user to edit my erratas/suggestion...
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Build efficient applications that exploit the unique benefits of a pure functional language, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell t...
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DW_Roth
Title: Effective Haskell - Example doesn’t work (page 8) Middle of page 8 says: "Create a new Main.hs and copy the example below to get ...
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eponymous
“Much of this {difficult~>difficulty} is due to the complexity inherent in modern systems. ” “Today, software needs to do more things...
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pennychase
At the beginning of the Composing Functions subsection in Chapter 1 it says: “You’ve already done this kind of implicit function composit...
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waj
Functions that accept arguments in any order are called “commutative”, not “associative”. Note that this is mentioned twice in the same p...
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pennychase
At the end of “Depending on Other Files” (ePub p 153), it says “In the next section you’ll learn the basics of Haskell’s syntax and gramm...
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jbcrail
To be more concise and minimize the number of threads, I grouped the suggested corrections into one post. A few notes on how I structure...
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pennychase
In Chapter 8, (Viewing Text One Page at a Time), when defining groupsOf, it says we should use a polymorphic type in the type signature, ...
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belega
The addPeano function switches the arguments in the recursive call. The implementation should be: addPeano Z b = b addPeano (S a) b = a...
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jbcrail
To be more concise and minimize the number of threads, I grouped the suggested corrections into one post. A few notes on how I structure...
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pennychase
In the “Functions as Data Types” section of Chapter 4 (ePub p 113), the takeDigits parser is introduced as “we could take some digits fro...
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pennychase
In the “Filtering List Elements” section, the party budget function is first called “foodBudget” and all subsequent reference are “partyB...
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darrenfehrmann
On page 19, the last line of the guard clause code snippet: | otherwise = “that’s an unfathomalbly big number” has “unfathomably” missp...
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DW_Roth
Title: Effective Haskell - lambda example would help (pages 8-9) At the bottom of page 8 and the top of page 9 lambdas are described. I ...
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pennychase
The discussion of why 1 'div' 0 isn’t evaluated in lazyIODemo (ePub p 214) could be expanded. The rationale (don’t want to read an entire...
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