RE: Robustness of instance Read Char

2001-11-02 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
the generics support in GHC so that you could do something like deriving Read for your own new class. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Peter Thiemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 15 October 2001 11:45 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Robustness of instance Read

Robustness of instance Read Char

2001-10-16 Thread Peter Thiemann
Folks, my code has unwillingly been forced to read a large string generated by show. This turned out to be a robustness test because the effect is a stack overflow (with Hugs as well as with GHC) and, of course, this error happened in a CGI script. If you want to try the effect yourself, just