[Haskell-cafe] List spine traversal

Martijn van Steenbergen martijn at van.steenbergen.nl
Mon Jun 29 04:35:05 EDT 2009


Tony Morris wrote:
> Is there a canonical function for traversing the spine of a list?
> 
> I could use e.g. (seq . length) but this feels dirty, so I have foldl'
> (const . const $ ()) () which still doesn't feel right. What's the
> typical means of doing this?

(seq . length) doesn't sound that bad to me.

Martijn.


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