Re: Preventing/handling space leaks

2003-12-07 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 06-Dec-2003, Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henk-Jan.van.Tuyl wrote: > >[...] it looks to me, that the problem of space leaks is a very good reason > >to not use Haskell for commercial applications. Java, for example, does > >not have this problem. > > I just can't resist when I read

Re: Preventing/handling space leaks

2003-12-07 Thread ketil+haskell
"Henk-Jan.van.Tuyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > L.S., (Whom?) > Does anyone know about documentation (preferably on the Web) on how to > prevent/find/remove space leaks? Are there any differences between > Hugs and GHC or any other Haskell platform, regarding space leaks? I should probably i

Re: Infinite types

2003-12-07 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Hello, There is a thread on comp.lang.functional that talks about why haskell does not support recursive types: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ocaml+rectypes&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=8giqpt%24oee%241%40rivesaltes.inria.fr&rnum=1 (searching for 'ocaml rectypes' on googl