[Haskell-cafe] pattern matching instead of prelude.head

[Lyndon Maydwell]

Pattern matching will warn you if you neglect to consider the empty list.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Michael Litchard <michael at schmong.org> wrote:
> Someone commented on StackOverflow that pattern matching the first
> element of a list was preferable to head. This makes sense
> intuitively. Could someone articulate the reason why this is true?
>
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