On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:40:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The translation
>
> > q = FinCons 3 q
> > === (by Haskell 98 report 4.2.1/Strictness Flags/Translation
> > q = (FinCons $ 3) $! q
>
> is rather subtle: the first FinCons is a strict constructor whereas the
> second is "the real constructor". In other words, the translation loops
> as we could (should?) apply
>
> FinCons
> => \x y -> FinCons x $! y
> => \x y -> (\x' y' -> FinCons x' $! y') x $! y
> => ...
>
> ad infinitum.
Yes, perhaps that ought to be fixed. But even so, this clearly implies that
FinCons 3 _|_ = _|_
and thus that q is _|_ and nhc98/yhc have a bug.
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