Implementation of binary search tree in Haskell

Tree.hs

{- Implementation of BST (binary search tree)
Script is absolutly free/libre, but with no guarantee.
Author: Ondrej Profant -}

import qualified Data.List

{- DEF data structure -}
data (Ord a, Eq a) => Tree a = Nil | Node (Tree a) a (Tree a) 
	deriving Show

{- BASIC Information -}
empty :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> Bool
empty Nil = True
empty  _  = False

contains :: (Ord a) => (Tree a) -> a -> Bool
contains Nil _ = False
contains (Node t1 v t2) x 
	| x == v = True
	| x  < v = contains t1 x 
	| x  > v = contains t2 x

{- BASIC Manipulation -}
insert :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> a -> Tree a
insert Nil x = Node Nil x Nil
insert (Node t1 v t2) x 
	| v == x = Node t1 v t2
	| v  < x = Node t1 v (insert t2 x)
	| v  > x = Node (insert t1 x) v t2

delete :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> a -> Tree a
delete Nil _ = Nil
delete (Node t1 v t2) x  
	| x == v = deleteX (Node t1 v t2)
	| x  < v = Node (delete t1 x) v t2
	| x  > v = Node t1 v (delete t2 x)

-- Delete root (is used on subtree)
deleteX :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> Tree a 
deleteX (Node Nil v t2) = t2
deleteX (Node t1 v Nil) = t1
deleteX (Node t1 v t2) = (Node t1 v2 t2) --(delete t2 v2))
	where 
		v2 = leftistElement t2

-- Return leftist element of tree (is used on subtree)
leftistElement :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> a
leftistElement (Node Nil v _) = v
leftistElement (Node t1 _ _) = leftistElement t1

-- Create tree from list of elemtents
ctree :: (Ord a) => [a] -> Tree a
ctree [] = Nil
ctree (h:t) = ctree2 (Node Nil h Nil) t
	where
		ctree2 tr [] = tr
		ctree2 tr (h:t) = ctree2 (insert tr h) t

-- Create perfect balance BST
ctreePB :: (Ord a) => [a] -> Tree a
ctreePB [] = Nil
ctreePB s = cpb Nil (qsort s) 

cpb :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> [a] -> Tree a
cpb tr [] = tr
cpb tr t = cpb (insert tr e) t2
	where	
		e = middleEl t
		t2 = Data.List.delete e t

-- Element in middle
middleEl :: (Ord a) => [a] -> a
middleEl s = mEl s s 

mEl :: (Ord a) => [a] ->  [a] -> a
mEl    []    (h:s2) = h
mEl (_:[])   (h:s2) = h
mEl (_:_:s1) (_:s2) = mEl s1 s2

{- PRINT -}
inorder :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> [a]
inorder Nil = []
inorder (Node t1 v t2) = inorder t1 ++ [v] ++ inorder t2

preorder :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> [a]
preorder Nil = []
preorder (Node t1 v t2) = [v] ++ preorder t1 ++ preorder t2

postorder :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> [a]
postorder Nil = []
postorder (Node t1 v t2) = postorder t1 ++ postorder t2 ++ [v]

-- from wiki
levelorder :: (Ord a) => Tree a -> [a]
levelorder t = step [t]
	where
		step [] = []
		step ts = concatMap elements ts ++ step (concatMap subtrees ts)
		elements Nil = []
		elements (Node left x right) = [x]
		subtrees Nil = []
		subtrees (Node left x right) = [left,right]

qsort :: (Ord a) => [a] -> [a] 
qsort [] = []
qsort (h:t) = (qsort [x| x<-t, x < h]) ++ [h] ++ (qsort [x| x<-t, x>=h ])

just a newbie here trying to look for examples to look at.

looks like something changed with datatype contexts so you need "{-# LANGUAGE DatatypeContexts #-}" or to change the setup for that to prevent compilation error with newer versions i think.

This code has been brought up in #haskell on IRC, and I wanted to mention this should not be used as an example of good design for Haskell code. Adding constraints to data type definitions is not a valuable thing to do (data (Ord a, Eq a) => Tree a = ...) because it doesn't help you ensure the invariants you want to, while meaning to have to add those constraints to every single functions which accepts a Tree, for example, the type of size should be Tree a -> Int because it doesn't need to know anything about the elements contained in the tree, but by doing this the type must be size :: (Ord a, Eq a) => Tree a -> Int, even though it makes no use of those constraints. It also does not prevent a user from creating invalid trees, myTree = Node (Node Nil 100 Nil) 1 (Node Nil 20 Nil) is perfectly valid for that type, but does not maintain the invariant you're expecting. (@deeTEEcee this is the reason it fails to compile, it's a feature that has been considered such a misfeature it has been removed from GHC)

Hi,
Looking for a short example of bst, but this one is much more.

I create another gist with only 3 methods (insert, fromArray, toPreorderArray).

Hope you enjoy, thanks.