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Effective Haskell: Difficult definition of binary tree (p 105, pdf)
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 is a Branch with two Leafs), which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to implement the addElementToIntTree in the exercises.
With the base case being:
addElementToIntTree (Leaf x) y = ...
Returning a Branch would require three elements (x, y, and ?).
With a definition allowing for empty leaves, it would be possible, but not necessarily pretty. For instance:
data BinaryTree a = Empty | Branch (BinaryTree a) a (BinaryTree a)First Post!
RebeccaSkinner
Author of Effective Haskell
Thanks for the note! I’ll look at updating the exercise to address that.
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