newsham: > >The point is... I'm not doing that. Gtk2hs is, but that's a well-tested > >library, so I very much doubt it's the source of the bug. > > I don't understand why Haskell users believe (perhaps are too often led to > believe) that haskell programs can't crash. Gtk2hs does a lot of native > stuff. Gtk's been around for a long time, but so has a lot of other > software that has lots of bugs still present in it. Often these bugs lead > to memory corruption and crashes. Haskell does nothing to prevent this > from happening (how could it?).
Haskell programs with particular constraints (i.e. pure, total Haskell, doesn't primarily call gtk...) -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
