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> On Apr 26, 2020, at 8:51 AM, Ken Overton <ken.overton at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello all,
> 
> I recently came across this function which made me realize I don't understand list comprehensions well. I hope someone can help me understand them better by understanding this example better. The function takes a list of Eq and returns the list of unique elements from it:
> 
>     unique :: Eq a => [a] -> [a]
>     unique xs = [x | (x,y) <- zip xs [0..], x `notElem` (take y xs)]
> 
> It's using a list comprehension with multiple 'generators' (hope I have the term correctly). My understanding of multiple generators in a list comprehension is that they refine the results of the previous generator.
> 
> So the first generator should produce [(Eq,Int)] as input to the second generator? And the second generator should produce [Bool]?
> 
> My understanding must be wrong though; how do we end up with just the items where the second generator produced True?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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