[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is this haskelly enough? -- errm but every answer is wrong(?)

On 2007-07-18, Anthony Clayden wrote:

(Or at least the problem is under-specified.) 2. The inits . tails approach adds a fault: It introduces a sprinkling of empty sub-sequences. These have sum zero. So in case the input list is all negative numbers ...

Why is this a fault? The subsequence with maximum sum is then the empty subsequence. Perfectly accurate. -- Aaron Denney -><-