On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:42:20AM -0400, David Roundy wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:38:19PM +0200, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 04:12:25PM -0400, David Roundy wrote: > > > > > > On the other hand, since they are still 32 bit computers, any given > > > application can still only access 4G of memory. This issue will only be a > > > problem on 64 bit platforms which have a 32 bit Int. > > > > Here is a funny program that gives wrong result because of length > > returning Int on a 32-bit computer. > > > > import Data.List > > main = print (length (genericTake 5000000000 (repeat ()))) > > > > Running it shows > > > > $ ./A > > 705032704 > > > > But this is a strange piece of code and I agree that it will hardly be a > > problem on a 32 bit platform. > > In fact, the only way this will be a problem is if your list is lazy and > consumed by the length function, but it's hard to see how that could happen > except in strange example code. That is, it's hard to imagine when you'd > need to know the length of a data structure you don't need...
Think `wc -l'. Greetings, Carsten -- Carsten Schultz (2:38, 33:47), FB Mathematik, FU Berlin http://carsten.codimi.de/ PGP/GPG key on the pgp.net key servers, fingerprint on my home page.
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