On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Daniel Fischer wrote: [...] > > and this expression is only evaluated if necessary. factorial 20000 builds a > thunk of 20000 nested multiplications, this is tried to evaluate when the > value is demanded for printing, but the expression is too deeply nested to > fit on the stack. >
So it goes to the stack, hum? It thought it would be just a pointer to some computation type on the heap. Anyway, thanks for the detailed answer. I asked here because I didn't test that code on any other compiler/interpreter, so it could be something related to hugs implementation. -- Bruno Schneider http://www.dcc.ufla.br/~bruno/ _______________________________________________ Hugs-Users mailing list Hugs-Users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users
