Another Newbie question :)

[Keith Wansbrough]

> Think of a list [1,2,3].  Recall this is "syntactic sugar" 
> (abbreviation) for 1:(2:(3:[])).  That looks like

FYI, I've just added my answer to your question to the Haskell Wiki, at

http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/WhatIsaFold

Enjoy!

--KW 8-)
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