On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:40:09AM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Sometimes I get a pattern match error, with output such as: > > pattern match failure: [...] > > Where the output goes on forever. This is unfortunate, because having > sped up the screen printing of WinHugs quite considerably, now its a > race to hit the stop button before this stuff has taken up the whole > screen buffer (100Kb) and pushed the name of the function causing the > error off the top. > > I guess the cause of this error is dictionary transformations > resulting in a nested dictionary? Is there any way to stop this > happening? Is it a known bug - it happens reasonably regularly to me.
It would probably be better to hide the dictionary arguments and the _vNNN suffixes altogether in pattern match errors. Can you put a boiled-down example in the BTS? _______________________________________________ Hugs-Users mailing list Hugs-Users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users
