Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [m..n] question

2008-09-23 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Sep 22, at 5:46, Jon Fairbairn wrote: Richard A. O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is being claimed that the reason for this is that exceptions are problematic in Hasell, so the Haskell designers went out of their way to make this function total whether it made sense or not. I'm

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [m..n] question

2008-09-22 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Richard A. O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erlang's equivalent of [m..n] is lists:seq(M, N), which is currently defined to raise an exception when N M. In particular, lists:seq(1, N) returns a list of length N when N 0, but not when N = 0. I'm currently arguing that lists:seq(1, 0)