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:: I recognized this as your code, Will, and the main reason I made changes was so that a noobie reader could just copy and paste the code segment into a '.hs' file or REPL and try it out without without needing to patch in a "where" or definition of a function from a previous entry in the progression of codes or look up an import; for instance, I don't think one can use "compare" without importing "Data.Ord" (or at least on my version - Windows/HP 2014.2.0), which is why I changed the codes to not use "compare". Yes, I know this appears from the outside as two operations rather than one, but there are at least two operations inside "compare" and we aren't trying for the ultimate in efficiency here anyway. Anyway, just showing the "import Data.Ord" would work. It seems to me that RosettaCode is most often used by people new to a language to get a flavour of how it is used, and who may want to just paste in a code segment to try it and learn about it. If you see that this could be valuable to them, then make those changes yourself. And no problem with your reverting of my changes, I was just trying to help beginning Haskell programmers as I was in the not-too-distant past. --[[User:GordonBGood|GordonBGood]] ([[User talk:GordonBGood|talk]]) 01:54, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
::: I just tried to make a clear presentation (you know, one feels invested and all that stuff...). Yes, that's a valuable point about the ability to run the code as-is. But OTOH to copy-paste some code from a near-by section shouldn't be much of a bother, hopefully. "compare" works inside GHCi right away, BTW, w/ 2014.2.0.0. on Win7. [[User:WillNess|WillNess]] ([[User talk:WillNess|talk]]) 14:44, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
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