[Haskell-cafe] Odd list comprehension behaviour

[Tom Ellis]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 03:58:06AM +0100, Krisztian Pinter wrote:
> I noticed some odd behaviour with list comprehensions.
> 
> [1..1] == [1]
> BUT
> [1,1..1] == [1..]

I think list enumerations are one of those things that would not make it
into Haskell today, if we were inventing it from scratch.

My (perhaps minority) opinion is that they should be avoided.

Tom