Re: [Haskell-beginners] Better way to write this?

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:35:06PM +0200, Mihai Maruseac wrote:

myLength xs = foldl addOne 0 xs where addOne x n = n + 1

Almost, Tim's original addOne is actually addOne x n = x + 1 The difference is that the given solution uses foldr whereas Tim was using foldl. Either one works in this case since + is commutative. -Brent