"Claus Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > no direct answer to your question, but a general comment on the > original problem (speaking from bad experience;-): things like > "head" have no place in a Haskell program of any non-trivial size, > because of their useless error messages.
I must say I liked John Meacham's description of his "magic underscore". My solution to this problem is redefining the troublesome functions as cpp macros, e.g: #define BUG(C_,M_) (error ("Program error - '"++C_++"' failed: "++M_++". Location: '"++__FILE__++"' line "++show __LINE__)) #define head (\xs -> case xs of { (x:_) -> x ; _ -> BUG("head","empty list")}) Ideally, I think something like this should be the default behavior for these functions. -kzm PS: If anybody wants, I can mail my additional cpp definitions for 'head', 'at' (array indexing, I couldn't work out how to redefine the bang), 'read' and 'fromJust'. -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe