On Thursday 27 September 2001 23:16, Tom Pledger wrote:
> Just as a matter of idle curiosity, is there a particular reason for
> tuples starting at element 1 (fst) whereas lists start at element 0?
>
> fst ('x', 'y') --> 'x'
> "xy" !! 1 --> 'y'
xs = [1,2,3,4]
If I were to ask you which one is the first element of xs would you answer, 2
because xs!!1 == 2? :)
J.A.