Re: Haskell 98: partition; and take,drop,splitAt

[Fergus Henderson]

On 15-Mar-2000, Malcolm Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 1.  Marcin Kowalczyk pointed out that scanl1 and 
> > scanr1 fail on empty args, whereas they could perfectly well 
> > return [] on such arguments.
> 
> Does the same apply for foldl1 and foldr1?

No, returning [] from foldl1 and foldr1 would be ill-typed.

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