[Haskell-cafe] Shouldn't this loop indefinitely => take (last [0..]) [0..]

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

Olivier Boudry wrote:

>     main = do
>       putStrLn $ show $ take (last [0..]) [0..]
> 
> or simply run:
> 
>     take (last [0..]) [0..]
> 
> in ghci, it first hang for about one minute and then starts to generate
> an infinite list.

It's not an infinite list.  It's a list of length maxBound::Int, as
required by the fact that take's first argument is an Int.  The second
argument is probably defaulting to Integer.

	<b