Re: drop & take [was: fixing typos in Haskell-98]

[Philip Wadler]

I'm with Jon Fairbairn on this.  Negative arguments are an error
because the domain of take and drop is the naturals.  The problem
is that we use Int to represent naturals.  -- P

> For the people that share this sentiment, can you please
> explain why ints that are too big should not similarly
> give an error?  I can see both being ok, or both being
> errors.  I just don't see why one should be ok and the
> other an error.