Hello guys. It is advisable to avoid partial functions in Haskell code, as said by Haskell wiki. For example, mod is partial and should be avoided. But I’ve got a question here. A function f which calculates a number modulo 7 can be defined such that f x = x mod 7. Is this partial? My opinion is that it can evaluate a value for each x so it is not although is uses a partial function. And is this a good practice which does not violate the practice that partial functions are avoided? If not, what am I supposed to write in this scenario?
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yeah it’s alright to use such a function because you pass it a constant, so in a sense you “prove” that it can’t be 0 (if your constant is 7)
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