Hi Jeff
Answered on Stackoverflow. Good question. The tutorial should be clear about using the preprocessor. Sorry.
Sergio
On Sun, 18 Nov 2018, at 19:50, Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown.the@gmail.com> wrote:
> I posted this question on Stackoverflow[1] yesterday and haven't received
> any answers yet. I've duplicated the question below, but an answer posted
> to StackOverflow would be more useful to future students, if you're so
> inclined.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ---
>
> In section 3.5.6 of the Curry tutorial (pdf)
> <https://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~curry/tutorial/tutorial.pdf>, we are
> advised to use default rules to "regain control after a failed search". The
> following example is given. (For clarity I have added a type signature and
> curried the input.)
>
> lookup :: k -> [(k,v)] -> Maybe v
> lookup key (_++[(key,value)]++_ ) = Just value
> lookup’default _ _ = Nothing
>
> I can't get that to compile unless I replace the ’ with a '. Once I do, it
> behaves like this:
>
> test> test.lookup 1 [(2,3)]
> *** No value found!
>
> Question 1: What is the default declaration for?
>
> Why would you need to specify that a particular clause is the default one?
> Won't it be arrived at one way or another, once the others fail?
> Question 2: How is it written? Should it be written at all?
>
> If instead I drop the string 'default:
>
> lookup :: k -> [(k,v)] -> Maybe v
> lookup key (_++[(key,value)]++_ ) = Just value
> lookup _ _ = Nothing
>
> it behaves as intended:
>
> test> test.lookup 1 [(2,3)]
> Nothing
> test>
>
> Has the 'default syntax changed since the tutorial was written? Has it been
> removed altogether?
> [1]
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53357361/specifying-default-rules-in-the-curry-language-why-and-how
>
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