<html><head></head><body><p dir="ltr">Hi</p>
<p dir="ltr">In your definition, you seem to have forgotten the case when your list is empty.<br>
[x] won't bind on [].</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
Nicolas SCHOEMAEKER</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On May 12, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Kim-Ee Yeoh <<a href="mailto:ky3@atamo.com" target="_blank">ky3@atamo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Roelof Wobben <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.wobben@home.nl" target="_blank">r.wobben@home.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
-- | The main entry point.<br>
last' :: [a] -> a <br></span>
last' [x] = x <br><span class="">
last' (x:xs) = last xs</span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Notice that the last line does no recursion: it invokes the Prelude's definition of last.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-- Kim-Ee</div></div>
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