10 Sep
2004
10 Sep
'04
6:29 a.m.
Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
The library functions like minimum, maximum, should perform in a constant space: probably, it is easy to write them his way. And ghc-6.2.2-pre shows
Prelude> minimum [1 .. (10^4)] 1
Prelude> minimum [1 .. (10^6)]
*** Exception: stack overflow Prelude>
What do you think of this, please?
Strange, I thought that foldl or foldl1 don't produce such garbage here.
I tested with Hugs, you are right also here, this is not specific to GHC.
minim (x:l) = mi x l where
mi x (y:q) |x