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Lists
Lists are sequences of elements of the same type and are a key component of Haskell. This means that a list can only hold elements of the same type, e.g. a list of
Ints as we used in our example function - sum. To create lists in Haskell, we put their elements in square brackets and separate them with commas:[False, False, True] :: [Bool] -- a list of booleans
[1, 3, 5] :: [Int] -- a list of integers
['a', 'b', 'c'] :: [Char] -- a list of characters
Lists can also contain other lists:
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]] :: [[Int]] -- a list of lists of integers
But remember - lists are sequences of elements of the same type, so a list of lists must not contain lists of different types. For example, we cannot combine a list of
Ints and a list of Chars into a single list of lists:ghci> x = [[1, 2, 3], ['a', 'b', 'c']]
<interactive>:2:7: error:
• No instance for (Num Char) arising from the literal ‘1’
• In the expression: 1
In the expression: [1, 2, 3]
In the expression: [[1, 2, 3], ['a', 'b', 'c']]
Lists can also be empty (
[]) and a special case called a singleton list is ([[]]), which is a list with its single element being an empty list. Lists in Haskell can also be infinite.Last modified 1yr ago