There are many implementations of such things.  Data.Sequence is one.  You
can also make an implementation that has O(1) cons, snoc, and append, but
that's rather tricky and has a large constant factor.

  -- Lennart

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> The function (++) :: [x] -> [x] -> [x] has O(n) complexity.
>
> If somebody were to invent some type that looks like [x] but actually uses
> some sort of tree rather than a linked list, you should be able to get O(1)
> concatenation. Has anybody ever implemented such a thing?
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