[Haskell-cafe] Hi can u explain me how drop works in Haskell

[Thomas Hartman]

Here's my, probably very obvious, contribution.

What I'd like feedback on is

 1) code seem ok? (hope so!)
 2) What do you think of the tests I did to verify that this
behaves the way I want? Is there a better / more idiomatic way to do
this?

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thartman at linodewhyou:~/learning/haskell/lists$ cat drop.hs
mydrop :: Int -> [Int] -> [Int]
mydrop 0 xs = xs
mydrop n xs = mydrop (n-1) (tail xs)

main = test
test = do print test1
         print test2
         print test3

test1 = mydrop 3 [1,2,3] == []
test2 = mydrop 2 [1,2,3] == [3]
test3 = mydrop 0 [1,2,3] == [1,2,3]
thartman at linodewhyou:~/learning/haskell/lists$ runghc drop.hs
True
True
True

2007/2/26, iliali16 <iliali16 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi I am trying to implement the function drop in haskell the thing is that I
> I have been trying for some time and I came up with this code where I am
> trying to do recursion:
>
> drop :: Integer -> [Integer] -> [Integer]
> drop 0 (x:xs) = (x:xs)
> drop n (x:xs)
>         |n < lList (x:xs) = dropN (n-1) xs :
>         |otherwise = []
>
> So I want to understand how would this work and what exacttly should I put
> as an answer on line 4 couse that is where I am lost. I know I might got the
> base case wrong as well but I don't know what to think for it. I have done
> the lList as a function before writing this one. Thanks to those who can
> help me understand this. Thanks alot in advance! Have a nice day!
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