On Jun 2, 2013, at 12:52 , Henry Laxen <nadine.and.he...@pobox.com> wrote:

> Yes, that was it.  The dell was a 32 bit system, and the desktop a 64.  I 
> changed everything from Int to Integer, and now both agree.  Thanks for the 
> pointer.

Isn't that just terrible? I hate the fact that Haskell was defined to neither 
trap the overflow
or just treat everything as Integer [like Scheme]. A sacrifice of program 
safety in the name
of efficiency.

I disagree with this choice and posit that a clever implementation can minimize 
the cost
of the overflow checking in most relevant cases.

I wish this fatal flaw would be reconsidered for the next major revision.

Tommy


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