Daniel Peebles wrote:
Why are potentially partial literals scarier than the fact that every value in the language could lead to an exception when forced?
That's a legitimate question, but it's strange to hear it from you. People ask that same question about Haskell's static type system. Why bother? Every value could lead to an exception when forced. So we might as well check everything at run time. Wouldn't it be ironic if the one thing that every language other than Haskell is able to check at compile time, namely the static syntax of string literals, could only be checked at run time in Haskell? Especially when, with just a little care, we could easily continue to check it at compile time while still supporting string literals of type Text and ByteString. I guess I'm just not understanding your question. Thanks, Yitz