ketil: > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 17:33 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > > Sorry, I should clarify, think about how to represent: > > > > 256 :: Word8 > > So the error isn't really divide by zero, but overflow. I've been > bitten by this, too, and L.Guo should count him/herself lucky to get an > error, and not just incorrect results.
I've always thought that the obfuscation opportunities for Num literal overloading, combined with Num *overflowing* were underappreciated. instance Num String anyone? Mwhaha -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
