[Haskell-cafe] Strange results when trying to create large Bool arrays.

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jul 11, 2007, at 19:11 , Thomas Conway wrote:

> Is there a compelling reason (hysterical raisins is not a compelling
> reason) why Data.*.{length,size,take,drop,etc} use Int and not Num n
> => .... or similar?

Efficiency, but many of them have generic equivalents (e.g.  
genericLength, genericDrop, etc.) at least in Data.List.

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