#8710: Overlapping patterns warning misplaced -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: goldfire | Status: new Type: bug | Milestone: Priority: low | Version: 7.7 Component: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Compiler | Type of failure: Incorrect warning at Keywords: | compile-time Architecture: | Test Case: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking: Difficulty: | Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Consider {{{ {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fwarn-overlapping-patterns #-} len [] = 0 len (_:t) = 1 + len t len _ = error "urk" }}} GHC reports the problem with this definition at the first line of it. I think it would be more helpful to have it at the last line, which is the pattern that will never match. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8710 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler