Not much better. You could define shiftl such that is does a single traversal and returns both the last element and all but the last. That will save you one traversal.

On Feb 4, 2007, at 18:44 , Eric Olander wrote:

Hi,
I'm still somewhat new to Haskell, so I'm wondering if there are better ways I could implement the following functions, especially shiftl:

>> moves the first element to the end of the list
    shiftr :: [a] -> [a]
    shiftr [] = []
    shiftr (x:y) = y ++ [x]

>> moves the last element to the head of the list
    shiftl :: [a] -> [a]
    shiftl [] = []
    shiftl x = [last x] ++ init x

-Eric
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