#10084: Data.List should have a takeLastN function -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: leonbaum2 | Owner: Type: feature | Status: new request | Milestone: Priority: normal | Version: 7.8.4 Component: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple libraries/base | Type of failure: None/Unknown Keywords: | Blocked By: Architecture: | Related Tickets: Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- A natural compliment to the `take` function that instead takes `n` elements from the end of the list rather than from the start would be very useful. I'm surprised it's not defined in base because it seems to be a common operation that is not trivial to define in an efficient way. See http://www.joachim- breitner.de/blog/600-On_taking_the_last_n_elements_of_a_list -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10084 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler