[Haskell-beginners] map increases length of list
Aaron MacDonald
aaronjm at eastlink.ca
Wed Jun 17 17:35:23 EDT 2009
For some reason, the map function returns a list that has one more
element than my input list.
My input list is a range defined by [0, 60..359] (should translate
into [0,60,120,180,240,300]).
The function I'm giving to map is defined this way:
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degreesToRadians :: Double -> Double
degreesToRadians degrees = degrees * (pi / 180)
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This is how I'm calling map overall:
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> map degreesToRadians [0,60..359]
[0.0,1.0471975511965976,2.0943951023931953,3.141592653589793,4.1887902047863905,5.235987755982989,6.283185307179586
]
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As you can hopefully see, there are seven elements instead of six.
Getting the length confirms this:
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> length [0,60..359]
6
> length $ map degreesToRadians [0,60..359]
7
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I do not seem to get this behaviour with the length if I either
substitute the degreesToRadians function or substitute the [0,60..359]
range.
P.S. Is there a built-in function to convert degrees to radians and
vice-versa?
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