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In the code sample at the top of the page, the error message No instance for (Data.String.IsString Int) is not correct and should be the ...
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On page 29 on the bottom, it says “fixity declation” instead of “fixity declaration”.
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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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Currently, it is:
sumOfUniques n = foldr (add n) (additiveIdentity n) . unique n
It should be:
sumOfUniques n = ...
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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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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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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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Both module statements in the code examples on pp. xvii and xviii in the Introduction (“Following Along with Example Cod...
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The book seems to be missing an import statement like
λ import HaskellBook.Examples.Introduction.CreatingModules (Name ...
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‘PolyKinds GHC2021’ (page xx, line 12) is a duplicate entry. See last line on page xix.
(Book version P1.0)
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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 get ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 “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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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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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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