patch applied (packages/base): Generic functions that take integral arguments should work the same way as their prelude counterparts

[Ian Lynagh]

Thu Aug 21 19:27:55 PDT 2008  
  * Generic functions that take integral arguments should work the same way as their prelude counterparts
  
  The Prelude functions drop, take, and splitAt are unfailing (never call error). This patch changes the Data.List generic versions to behave the same way. At present, they call error on negative arguments.
  

    M ./Data/List.hs -10 +8

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http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base/_darcs/patches/20080822022755-da39a-9a1dc0bec5a4d244657bf5c833743d223a84ab34.gz