Excerpts from michael rice's message of Fri Jul 30 14:41:44 -0400 2010:
> One description has the type and associated operations, the other only has
> the operations.
>
> Where can I find the type definition for List, and why isn't it in Data.List?
Hello Michael,
This is because the List datatype is built into Haskell. A close approximation
to it would be:
data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a)
where
List a is [a] (type)
Nil is [] (constructor)
Const x xs is x:xs (constructor)
Cheers,
Edward
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