Hi Brandon, OK, so you're basically saying that segfaults can be eliminated with a strong type system, whereas pattern matching errors is the result of some dodgy laziness going on? I personally think such pattern matching errors are a weaknesss of the language; with possibly no solutions to resolve.
regards, Chris. On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On 2008 Aug 23, at 17:29, C.M.Brown wrote: > > I wonder whether seg faults are the true analogue to errors such as > > "error: head empty list." or pattern match errors. > > Not really; while laziness does introduce a certain amount of "spooky > action at a difference" to such errors, it's not nearly as bad as the > memory corruption (due to effective type mismatches) that often leads > to the segfault. > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
