Right, these optimizations are done on the unboxed level, where bottom is not a concern. GHC would transform
bar a b = a + b - a - b to bar (I# a) (I# b) = I# (a +# b -# a -# b) whose RHS could be optimized away to I# 0#. bar is still strict in its two arguments, so calling bar undefined undefined would still throw an error. On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Boris Lykah <lyk...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is not obvious that semantics is preserved for optimisations which > remove non-constants like > > bar a b = a + b - a - b -- the RHS is should be optimized away to 0 > > Calling bar undefined undefined throws an error, but the optimised bar > would return 0. > > -- > Regards, > Boris
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