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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello, <br>
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      What my intention was to make a safe version of the init function
      found in Data.list so it procudes a list without the last item. <br>
      At first look your function procudes the whole list again.<br>
      <br>
      Roelof<br>
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      akash g schreef op 13-5-2015 om 10:57:<br>
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              <div>Why not just?<br>
                <br>
                ==================<br>
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              init' [] = Nothing<br>
            </div>
            init' xs = Just xs<br>
            ==================<br>
            <br>
          </div>
          <div>Meets your type sig and is also has a time complexity of
            O(1) instead of O(n) which will be the time complexity in
            the solution involving fromMaybe.  Maybe I'm missing
            something.<br>
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          Perhaps it'd help us help you if you'd be a bit more clear on
          what you want to achieve. </div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Sumit
          Sahrawat, Maths & Computing, IIT (BHU) <span dir="ltr"><<a
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          wrote:<br>
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                <div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 12 May 2015
                    at 20:14, Roelof Wobben <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                        <div>Thanks, <br>
                          <br>
                          The right solution was this : <br>
                          <br>
                          init' (x:xs) = Just (x:fromMaybe xs (init'
                          xs))<br>
                          <br>
                          if I understand it right x:fromMaybe xs takes
                          care that from xs the just or Nothing is
                          removed ?<br>
                          <br>
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                    </div>
                  </span>Trying it out in ghci,
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                  <div>fromMaybe [1,2] Nothing == [1,2]</div>
                  <div>fromMaybe [1,2] Just [3] == [3]</div>
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                  <div>It seems like that should indeed work.</div>
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                          <div> Roelof<br>
                            <br>
                            <br>
                            <br>
                            Alexey Shmalko schreef op 12-5-2015 om
                            16:33:<br>
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                                <div dir="ltr">Try fromMaybe [1].
                                  Examples<br>
                                  <br>
                                  <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>
                                  <div><br>
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                                  <div>[1]: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.0.0/docs/Data-Maybe.html#v:fromMaybe"
                                      target="_blank">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 Wobben <<a
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                                      <div>Oke, <br>
                                        <br>
                                        And how do I do this.  Haskell
                                        is a difficult one to learn,<br>
                                        <br>
                                        Roelof<br>
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                                        <br>
                                        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
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                                              <div>Brandon Allbery
                                                schreef op 12-5-2015 om
                                                16:16:<br>
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                                                      class="gmail_quote">On
                                                      Tue, May 12, 2015
                                                      at 10:11 AM,
                                                      Roelof Wobben <span
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                                                          <div>I do not
                                                          understand
                                                          what you are
                                                          saying to me.<br>
                                                          <br>
                                                          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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                                                    -- <br>
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