On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> wrote:

It's not an infinite list.  It's a list of length maxBound::Int, as
required by the fact that take's first argument is an Int.  The second
argument is probably defaulting to Integer.

 
Right! The first arg of "take" makes the first list into a int list. I did not wait long enough to see the end of the list and I'm so used to represent infinite lists with [0..] that I didn't think it could be limited.

Thanks for the explanation!

Olivier.