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		mapleoin on Jan 31, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Functional programming explained ... IRC-style you can do that with python generators, too. These don't seem like the most eccentric Haskell features to me.

tumult on Jan 31, 2010 | [–]

Don't generators have to yield in order to return data?

And I never claimed these were eccentric features.

tel on Jan 31, 2010 | [–]

Take a look at Parsec sometime.

Sure, you can do parsers in any language, but the monadic/combinator structure is a little bit eccentric and a lot amazing.

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