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In Haskell, lists are what Arrays are in most other languages. Haskell has all of the general list manipulation functions, see also <hask>Data.List</hask>.
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<haskell>
head [1,2,3]      --> 1
tail [1,2,3]      --> [2,3]
length [1,2,3]    --> 3
init [1,2,3]      --> [1,2]
last [1,2,3]      --> 3
</haskell>
 
Furthermore, Haskell supports some neat concepts.
 
= Infinite lists =
<haskell>
Prelude> [1..]
</haskell>
 
The list of all squares:
<haskell>
square x = x*x
squares = map square [1..]
</haskell>
 
But in the end, you probably don't want to use infinite lists, but make them finite. You can do this with <hask>take</hask>:
 
<haskell>
Prelude> take 10 squares
[1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81,100]
</haskell>
 
= List comprehensions =
 
The list of all squares can also be written in a more comprehensive way, using list comprehensions:
 
<haskell>
squares = [x*x | x <- [1..]]
</haskell>
 
List comprehensions allow for constraints as well:
 
<haskell>
-- multiples of 3 or 5
mults = [ x | x <- [1..], mod x 3 == 0 || mod x 5 == 0 ]
</haskell>

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