Value of the last element of a list

Question

how to get the value of the last element of a List? I\'ve noted that List.hd (or .Head) return an item, while List.tl (or .Tail) returns a List.

Is rev the List and

Answer 1

The regular way to work with lists in F# is to use recursion. The first item in a list is the head (obviously) and the rest of the list is the tail (as oppose to the last item). So when a function recieves a list it processes the head and then recursively processes the rest of the list (the tail).

let reversedList = List.rev originalList
let tailItem = List.hd reversedList