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

Codepad uses Hugs, according to their about page. Makes me terribly glad that the error messages in GHC are so much more informative. On Jul 11, 2011, at 7:11 PM, David McBride wrote:

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:

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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

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