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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks, <br>
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The right solution was this : <br>
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init' (x:xs) = Just (x:fromMaybe xs (init' xs))<br>
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if I understand it right x:fromMaybe xs takes care that from xs
the just or Nothing is removed ?<br>
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Roelof<br>
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Alexey Shmalko schreef op 12-5-2015 om 16:33:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Try fromMaybe [1]. Examples<br>
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<div>Prelude Data.Maybe> fromMaybe [] (Just [1,2,3])</div>
<div>[1,2,3]</div>
<div>Prelude Data.Maybe> fromMaybe [1,2,3] Nothing</div>
<div>[1,2,3]</div>
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href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.0.0/docs/Data-Maybe.html#v:fromMaybe">https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.0.0/docs/Data-Maybe.html#v:fromMaybe</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:28 PM Roelof
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<div>Oke, <br>
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And how do I do this. Haskell is a difficult one to
learn,<br>
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Roelof<br>
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Alexey Shmalko schreef op 12-5-2015 om 16:24:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Before cons'ing the result of init', you
should check whether it's Just or Nothing. What you're
doing now is something along the line with 5 : Just 3 --
this won't typecheck.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:22 PM
Roelof Wobben <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>Brandon Allbery schreef op 12-5-2015 om 16:16:<br>
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at 10:11 AM, Roelof Wobben <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>I do not understand what you are
saying to me.<br>
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I know that init produces a Maybe [a]
. That is why I did put a Just before
it.<br>
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<div>You are invoking it again though, and
using its result as if it produces [a]
instead of Maybe [a].</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> What is then
the right way to do. I still do not understand what
you are trying to make clear to me.</div>
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