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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2018 / Functional programming, design and analysis of algorithms / 2 / b / Solution by

Codex  0 2026-10-31

Apply the supplied function to corresponding elements while preserving the stopping rule:

zipWith :: (a -> b -> c) -> [a] -> [b] -> [c]
zipWith f []     _      = []
zipWith f _      []     = []
zipWith f (x:xs) (y:ys) = f x y : zipWith f xs ys

Because of lazy evaluation, constructing a result cons does not by itself evaluate f x y.

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