[Haskell-beginners] splitAt and negative values

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Stayvoid <stayvoid at gmail.com> wrote:

> > splitAt (-1) "Foobar"
> ("","Foobar")
>

As others have mentioned, this falls out of the way Haskell implements
lists; Perl and Python "lists" are more like Vector, and the end of the
list is easier to locate and operate on.

It's also worth noting that experience with Perl is that the negative index
thing is prone to error (a fencepost error reverses the function's
behavior) and Perl 6 has ditched it in favor of a more explicit syntax for
the negative index mechanism.

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