[Haskell-cafe] Re: Shouldn't this loop indefinitely => take (last [0..]) [0..]

Bryan O'Sullivan 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.

Which, incidentally, also explains why Don couldn't reproduce it on a 64- bit system. There, instead of hanging for about a minute before printing out the list, it would hang for about 4 billion minutes. -- Chris Smith