Two Dozen Short Lessons in Haskell a participatory textbook on functional programming
by
Rex Page School of Computer Science University of Oklahoma
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Table of Contents 1 .................................................................................................. How To Use This Book
1 10 .............................................................................................................. Definitions 2 14 ...............................................................................How to Run Haskell Programs 3 17 ......................................... Computations on Sequences — List Comprehensions 4 21 ...................................................................... Function Composition and Currying 5 25 .......................... Patterns of Computation — Composition, Folding, and Mapping 6 33 ......................................................................................................................Types 7 37 ........................................................ Function Types, Classes, and Polymorphism 8 42 ............................................ Types of Curried Forms and Higher Order Functions 9 46 ..............................................................Private Definitions — the where-clause 10 54 ..............................................................................................................