On 2008 Aug 28, at 13:21, Tim Newsham wrote:
GNU ld supports "pragmas" which cause the use of certain functions
to output warnings at link time (try compiling a C program that
uses gets()). It occurs to me that this, either in compiler or
linker, would be a nice thing for ghc to do when using fromJust or
other partial functions.
would you include all partial functions in this, such as head?
I'd like to, but IMO head is a little more acceptable because lists
aren't binary like Maybe. fromJust really is the Haskell equivalent
of dereferencing a pointer without checking if it's NULL, aside from
being more reliably detectable.
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