On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Dinh Tien Tuan Anh wrote: > Another question, it's said in the book that using cyclic structure (like > ones = 1:ones) , the list would be represented by a fixed amount of memory. > > Does it mean [1,1,1......] only occupy one cell of memory ? > How about in " take 100 [1,1,...] " ?
'take' will certainly ignore the cyclic structure. Even if it could detect the cycle in its argument there is no way to represent the list of 100 elements more efficiently. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
