[Haskell-cafe] List spine traversal

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/6/29 Martijn van Steenbergen <martijn at van.steenbergen.nl>:
> Tony Morris wrote:
>>
>> Is there a canonical function for traversing the spine of a list?
>>
>> I could use e.g. (seq . length) but this feels dirty, so I have foldl'
>> (const . const $ ()) () which still doesn't feel right. What's the
>> typical means of doing this?
>
> (seq . length) doesn't sound that bad to me.
>
> Martijn.
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What is the spine of a list? Google seems to fail me on this one.

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Deniz Dogan