[Haskell-beginners] reverse [1..]

[Alexander _]

Hello,

Here you try to reverse infinite list. What do you expect to get?


2012/12/18 Emanuel Koczwara <poczta at emanuelkoczwara.pl>

> Hi,
>
>   When I run this code in ghci:
>
>     reverse [1..]
>
>   I get:
>
>     <interactive>: out of memory (requested 2097152 bytes)
>
>   Can anyone explain this behaviour?
>
> Emanuel
>
>
>
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