I don't think that's so bad, it's just you are using a function instead of the usual built in indexing operator [0]. Here's something a bit more convenient usin

I don't think that's so bad, it's just you are using a function instead of the usual built in indexing operator [0]. Here's something a bit more convenient using Data.Array.Lens[1]. arr ^. ix 2 vs the original: readArray arr 2