Re: [Haskell-beginners] the first argument of take is an Int and not Integral..

To require an Integer implies you have a list of 2 billion+ elements and that's pretty huge for a list. Take is used a lot, and using an Int instead of Integer for something that gets called so often is just common sense. On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Sunil S Nandihalli wrote:

Hi everybody,  I feel forcing the first argument of take to be an Int is unnecessarily restrictive .. Is there a rationale behind not making it just (Integral a) ? right now it is take::Int->[a]->[a] I was thinking may be take::(Integral b)=>b->[a]->[a] would be better... Thanks, Sunil. _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners