Re: [Haskell-beginners] function defenition. Do I understand it right?

Because I tried it and it didn't work. But it turns out it does work and it was just an ambiguous variable error from using empty list. Codepad had a weird error, they must be using an old version of ghc or something. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ozgur Akgun wrote:

Hi.

On 11 July 2011 18:44, David McBride wrote:

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And your first version (once corrected for syntax) works on any list length except for empty lists.

Why wouldn't it work for empty lists? For example with the following definition: halve xs = let n = length xs `div` 2 in (take n xs, drop n xs)

Best, Ozgur