[Haskell-cafe] Is "take" behaving correctly?

[Tim Chevalier]

On 9/11/07, PR Stanley <prstanley at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi
> take 1000 [1..3] still yields [1,2,3]
> I thought it was supposed to return an error.
> Any ideas?

No, that's the behavior for take specified in the Haskell 98 report:
http://haskell.org/onlinereport/standard-prelude.html
"-- take n, applied to a list xs, returns the prefix of xs of length n,
-- or xs itself if n > length xs."

Cheers,
Tim

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