On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, David House wrote: > On 11/11/06, Aditya Siram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > subOne :: [Integer] -> [Integer] > > subOne = map (- 1) > > The short answer is that this is interpreted as negative unity, rather > than a section of binary minus. There are two common workarounds: > > subOne = map (subtract 1) > subOne = map (+ (-1)) > > There's a whole minefield of opinions on whether this is the right > syntax or not. I'm sure you could google through the archives to > research this a bit more.
E.g. this thread http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-August/017403.html continued here: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-September/017941.html _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
