An n-ary zipWith in Haskell
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https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v5i38.19483Abstract
The aim of this note is to present an alternative definition of thezipWith family in the Haskell Library Report [5]. Because of the difficulties in defining a well-typed function with a variable number of arguments, [5] presents a family of zipWith functions. It provides zip functions zipWith2, zipWith3, . . . , zipWith7. For each n, zipWithn zips n lists with a n-ary function. Defining a single zipWith function with a variable number of arguments seems to require dependent types. Inspired by [3], we show, however, how to define such a function in Haskell by means of a binary operator for grouping its arguments. For comparison, we also give definitions of zipWith in languages with dependent types.
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1998-06-08
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Fridlender, D., & Indrika, M. (1998). An n-ary zipWith in Haskell. BRICS Report Series, 5(38). https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v5i38.19483
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