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Example: Basic Shape Type¶. BasicShape is a newly created type that represents circles and rectangles. It has two values, and both take inputs. Circle is a data constructor for BasicShape, and it ...
The above is an example of a tuple pair that is comprised of two elements, in this case, a string and a boolean. Notice that the tuple type is dependent on its elements – both the number of elements ...
Although lists and tuples are useful, we’ll often want to construct new data types of our own. This allows us to add structure to the values in our programs. Instead of using an anonymous tuple, we ...
A Custom List Data Type¶ Haskell has good built-in support for lists that you should use for most programs. In this question we will implement our own list type as follows: data List a = Empty | Cons ...
What are some use cases for which it would be beneficial to use Haskell, rather than R or Python, in data science? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.