Translation: Look at Data.Sequence sometime. On 9/18/10 11:15 AM, Maciej Piechotka wrote:
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 03:51 -0400, Christopher Tauss wrote:
Hello Haskell Community -
I am a professional programmer with 11 years experience, yet I just do not seem to be able to get the hang of even simple things in Haskell. I am trying to write a function that takes a list and returns the last n elements.
There may be a function which I can just call that does that, but I am trying to roll my own just to understand the concept.
Let's call the function n_lastn and, given a list [1,2,3,4,5], I would like n_lastn 3 = [3,4,5]
Seems like it would be something like:
n_lastn:: [a]->Int->[a] n_lastn 1 (xs) = last(xs) n_lastn n (x:xs) = ????
The issue is I do not see how you can store the last elements of the list.
Thanks in advance.
ctauss I'll add my $0.03 - unless you are doing it to learn about lists rethink your approach. Taking k elements from end of n-element list will be O(n) operation.
For example with appropriate structures (like finger trees) it would look like O(k) operation.
Regards
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