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Today's Topics:
1. Need some understanding on this behavior. (Alexander Chen)
2. Re: Need some understanding on this behavior. (Alexander Klink)
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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 09:14:24 +0100 (CET)
From: Alexander Chen <[email protected]>
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Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Need some understanding on this behavior.
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hi,
I need some understanding on the following behavior:
a = [1..]
[x | x <-a, x <= 100]
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100
(note the missing ']' which results in the command not finishing)
b = take 1000 a
[x | x <-b, x <= 100]
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100]
Note, I took more for b just for ease sake. But now the command finishes
correctly.
Question:
why can i not use a lazy list directly in a list comprehension?
best,
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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2020 09:59:47 +0100
From: Alexander Klink <[email protected]>
To: Alexander Chen <[email protected]>, The Haskell-Beginners
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Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Need some understanding on this
behavior.
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Hi Alexander,
On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 09:14:24AM +0100, Alexander Chen wrote:
> I need some understanding on the following behavior:
>
> a = [1..]
> [x | x <-a, x <= 100]
> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100
>
> (note the missing ']' which results in the command not finishing)
It does not finish because the list comprehension does not know that a
is ordered, so it has to go through *every* element and take those that
are less than or equal to 100.
HTH,
Alex
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