[Haskell-cafe] Re: Non Empty List?

[GüŸnther Schmidt]

Dan Weston schrieb:
> Unless I'm missing something in your description, why not
> 
>   data Container a = Single a | Many a a [a]
> 

Hi Dan,

the above solution would still allow to construct, for instance,

Many 5 42 [] :: Container Int

The reason why I'm trying to find the design for a data structure in 
which this would not even be possible is to be able to avoid writing 
additional "bookkeeping" code into the functions that operate on the 
structure, ie. the lookups, inserts, delete etc.

Günther