Re: [Haskell-beginners] GHCi bug?

To explain that further as to why it's not a bug... GHCi's job is to run the code you enter. You asked it to show a value, so it executed the show function (correctly). The default implementation called showPrec, which invoked show, etc. There may well be a missing feature here (to check of you implement nothing other than the defaults which are very likely to loop), but not a bug. Bob On 16 Nov 2010, at 11:44, Ozgur Akgun wrote:

Unfortunately, yes.

On 16 November 2010 11:39, Russ Abbott wrote: I'm not sure what you are saying here. Are you saying that it's not a bug that GHCi went into a coma when I file was loaded and a prompt entered?

-- Russ

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Ozgur Akgun wrote:

On 16 November 2010 05:12, Russ Abbott wrote: I know the code isn't correct. My point is that the compiler didn't complain when the code was loaded, and the interpreter died when it was executed. That shouldn't happen.

-- Russ

It would be cool for GHC to make an analysis about the instance methods of a type class, and their default implementations to find the minimal subset of methods you have to implement to get a valid (for some definition of valid) instance declaration. But it doesn't do such a thing. And it is not an easy task.

GHC only warns you if you do not implement a method which doesn't have a default implementation. In your example, this is not the case.

Best,

-- Ozgur Akgun

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