
Hello Haskellers, I just finished implementing a very simple Trie module, consisting of a Trie data type as well as operations `insert` and `lookup`. Function `insert` inserts a new element into the Trie; function lookup searches for all words in the Trie that match a specific pattern. Besides regular words, a pattern may consist of a single dot '.', indicating that at this position of the search term any letter may occur. For example a pattern "hello" would just search for the word "hello" in the Trie, while ".ello" would search words starting in *any* letter and followed by the sequence "ello" (i.e., it searches for "hello", "Hello", "Aello", etc.) The code for the Trie module can be found here: http://lpaste.net/180768. Regarding the code I have two questions: (1) Since I'm new to Haskell, I'd very much welcome feedback on the general implementation of the Trie module and its two methods what I could improve. (2) While testing the Trie module with QuickCheck, I wrote the property `prop_insert_then_lookup_succeeds` stating that after inserting a word into a Trie it can always successfully be looked up again. While quickchecking this property seems to succeed, I cannot verbose check it. In particular, when I run `verboseCheck prop_insert_then_lookup_succeeds` this property consumes all my main memory and results in the program hanging. Does anyone know what I messed up in devising the quickcheck property? I guess I left open some memory leak... Maybe it has to to with the Arbitrary instance which I might have defined incorrectly? Responses to any of the two questions above are very welcome :-) Thanks! Dominik.