[Haskell-beginners] Concatenating lists
Jan Erik Moström
lists at mostrom.pp.se
Thu Mar 22 15:44:21 CET 2012
Hi,
I've just started to learn Haskell and played around a bit and tried this
1: let x = [1,2,3]
2: let x = x ++ [4,5,6]
3: x
The last line doesn't give a result. I assume that this is because 'x' is a name of a value, in the second line I redefine 'x' to a new value but Haskell doesn't evaluate the value until the last line but then 'x' becomes recursively defined in itself (the second x on line 2 is interpreted to refer to the value of the first x on line 2 and not the value defined in line 1). This behavior is caused by the lazy evaluation in Haskell.
Have I understood this correctly?
- jem
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