Haskell: "how much" of a type should functions receive? and avoiding complete "reconstruction"
- by L01man
I've got these data types:
data PointPlus = PointPlus
{ coords :: Point
, velocity :: Vector
} deriving (Eq)
data BodyGeo = BodyGeo
{ pointPlus :: PointPlus
, size :: Point
} deriving (Eq)
data Body = Body
{ geo :: BodyGeo
, pict :: Color
} deriving (Eq)
It's the base datatype for characters, enemies, objects, etc. in my game (well, I just have two rectangles as the player and the ground right now :p).
When a key, the characters moves right, left or jumps by changing its velocity. Moving is done by adding the velocity to the coords. Currently, it's written as follows:
move (PointPlus (x, y) (xi, yi)) = PointPlus (x + xi, y + yi) (xi, yi)
I'm just taking the PointPlus part of my Body and not the entire Body, otherwise it would be:
move (Body (BodyGeo (PointPlus (x, y) (xi, yi)) wh) col) = (Body (BodyGeo (PointPlus (x + xi, y + yi) (xi, yi)) wh) col)
Is the first version of move better? Anyway, if move only changes PointPlus, there must be another function that calls it inside a new Body. I explain: there's a function update which is called to update the game state; it is passed the current game state, a single Body for now, and returns the updated Body.
update (Body (BodyGeo (PointPlus xy (xi, yi)) wh) pict) = (Body (BodyGeo (move (PointPlus xy (xi, yi))) wh) pict)
That tickles me. Everything is kept the same within Body except the PointPlus. Is there a way to avoid this complete "reconstruction" by hand? Like in:
update body = backInBody $ move $ pointPlus body
Without having to define backInBody, of course.
