[Haskell-cafe] Need some help with an infinite list

[Daniel Peebles]

One (rather ugly) option is:

tail . map (\y -> showIntAtBase 26 (\x -> chr (x + 96)) y "") $ [0..]

but I'm sure there's a prettier one out there :)

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:28 PM, GüŸnther Schmidt<gue.schmidt at web.de> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'd like to generate an infinite list, like
>
> ["a", "b", "c" .. "z", "aa", "ab", "ac" .. "az", "ba", "bb", "bc" .. "bz",
> "ca" ...]
>
> When I had set out to do this I thought, oh yeah no prob, in a heartbeat.
>
> Uhm.
>
> Help, pls!
>
> Günther
>
> PS: I know this should be a no-brainer, sry
>
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