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

Olivier Boudry wrote:

main = do putStrLn $ show $ take (last [0..]) [0..]

or simply run:

take (last [0..]) [0..]

in ghci, it first hang for about one minute and then starts to generate an infinite list.

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.