
24 Apr
2012
24 Apr
'12
6:27 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 02:14, J. Garrett Morris
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Yitzchak Gale
wrote: This is true; the use of polymorphism for numeric literals is also unsound.
By this logic, head is "unsound", since head [] throws an error.
Oddly enough, it's actually widely recognized that non-total functions like `head` pose problems. it still remains that string (or indeed numeric) literals are not expected to cause runtime exceptions. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms