Bob

Bob

Easy

Introduction

Bob is a lackadaisical teenager. He likes to think that he's very cool. And he definitely doesn't get excited about things. That wouldn't be cool.

When people talk to him, his responses are pretty limited.

Instructions

Your task is to determine what Bob will reply to someone when they say something to him or ask him a question.

Bob only ever answers one of five things:

  • "Sure." This is his response if you ask him a question, such as "How are you?" The convention used for questions is that it ends with a question mark.
  • "Whoa, chill out!" This is his answer if you YELL AT HIM. The convention used for yelling is ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
  • "Calm down, I know what I'm doing!" This is what he says if you yell a question at him.
  • "Fine. Be that way!" This is how he responds to silence. The convention used for silence is nothing, or various combinations of whitespace characters.
  • "Whatever." This is what he answers to anything else.

You need to implement the responseFor function that returns Bob's response for a given input. You can use the provided signature if you are unsure about the types, but don't let it restrict your creativity:

responseFor :: String -> String

To solve this exercise you may read up on:

This exercise works with textual data. For historical reasons, Haskell's String type is synonymous with [Char], a list of characters. For more efficient handling of textual data, the Text type can be used.

As an optional extension to this exercise, you can

  • Read about string types in Haskell.

  • Add - text to your list of dependencies in package.yaml.

  • Import Data.Text in the following way:

    import qualified Data.Text as T
    import           Data.Text (Text)
    
  • You can now write e.g. responseFor :: Text -> Text and refer to Data.Text combinators as e.g. T.isSuffixOf.

  • Look up the documentation for Data.Text,

  • You can then replace all occurrences of String with Text in Bob.hs:

    responseFor :: Text -> Text
    

This part is entirely optional.

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