Re: [Haskell-cafe] pattern matching instead of prelude.head

Pattern matching will warn you if you neglect to consider the empty list. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Michael Litchard wrote:

Someone commented on StackOverflow that pattern matching the first element of a list was preferable to head. This makes sense intuitively. Could someone articulate the reason why this is true?

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