[Haskell-beginners] Re: Built-in/more elegant version of this function?

Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 18:49:51 schrieb Jordan Cooper:

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I was wondering if there is a built-in way to do what this function I wrote does (or at least a more elegant way, preferably without explicit recursion).

f xss = map safeHead xss : f (map safeTail xss)

(where safeHead/Tail are versions of head/tail that don't crash on [] input)

Not quite the same, but

Prelude> :m +Data.List Prelude Data.List> transpose [[1,2],[],[3,4,5]] [[1,3],[2,4],[5]]

could be more or less what you want.

Thank you, I think that will work nicely!