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Both module statements in the code examples on pp. xvii and xviii in the Introduction (“Following Along with Example Cod...
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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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The book seems to be missing an import statement like
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the (<>) operator would get passed to the function show instead of
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Missing out an i in associativity — associatvity.
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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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Title: Effective Haskell - Kindle Edition
Chapter: 1 Section: Precedence, Operators, and Fixity
In the first expression, ((((((add add)...
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sumOfUniques n = foldr (add n) (additiveIdentity n) . unique n
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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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Effective Haskell:Chapter 13 (B9 - PDF version) - infinite loop when running the ClassyArchiver code
Refer to pages 508-511
I get an infinite loop when running the original parseArchive function, after adding a variable called "arc...
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Title: Effective Haskell - Kindle Edition
Chapter: 1 Section: Precedence, Operators, and Fixity
In the first expression, ((((((add add)...
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@RebeccaSkinner
Currently, it is:
sumOfUniques n = foldr (add n) (additiveIdentity n) . unique n
It should be:
sumOfUniques n = ...
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@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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Missing out an i in associativity — associatvity.
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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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@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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@RebeccaSkinner
The book seems to be missing an import statement like
λ import HaskellBook.Examples.Introduction.CreatingModules (Name ...
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@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, a...
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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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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...
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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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@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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the “Filtering List Elements” section, the party budget function is first called “foodBudget” and all subsequent reference are “partyB...
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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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“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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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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@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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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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@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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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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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 a...
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In the first complete version of runHCat (ePub p. 201), that reads a file and prints it to the screen, LambdaCase is used. First, the pro...
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@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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It may be too much nitpicking, but you could consider describing the context in which the two language extensions (OverloadedStrings and ...
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@RebeccaSkinner
In beta 9.0
A small typo near the bottom of p83:
“but it there are some extra moving parts”
Probably"it" sh...
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The definition of BinaryTree doesn’t allow for an empty tree (the minimum definition is a Leaf with one element) or two elements (next up...
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At the end of the subsection on records, it might be nice to mention the practice of defining a default value for a complex record (e.g.,...
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In the example:
return "4" >>= ioRead
You could consider adding an explanation, like “Remember that return "4"...
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