List are actually built in to the language, but they are roughly equivalent to the following definition: data List a = [] | a:List a The reason why this definition never actually appears is because it defines the constructors using operators rather than names, which is not allowed in vanilla Haskell. (There is an extension, TypeOperators, however, that does allow this.) Cheers, Greg On 07/30/10 11:41, michael rice wrote:
From: Data.Maybe
Description The Maybe type, and associated operations.
From: Data.List
Description Operations on lists.
One description has the type and associated operations, the other only has the operations.
Where can I find the type definition for List, and why isn't it in Data.List?
Michael
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