
25 Apr
2004
25 Apr
'04
1:45 p.m.
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 14:32, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
Dear GHC developers,
Probably, it is better to provide Integer or Integral a => a instead of Int in the function sizeFM :: FiniteMap k e -> Int
What do you think of this?
Are you planning to put more than 2^31 entries into your FiniteMap? I don't think I could afford a machine with the >16GB of ram necessary to do that. I guess this same argument took place over the Prelude.length function. The conclusion was to add List.genericLength :: Num a => [b] -> a Duncan