On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Ketil Malde
On a more serious note, I accept that Int (and other limited precision numbers) is a fact of life, and sometimes useful for performance reasons.
I would have liked, however, to have a compiler option or some other way to make my programs throw an exception on overflow - even if this turned out to be slower, I could at least use it when testing my programs, which would have caught a few bugs.
Yes for software detection, some will want it and some will not; see the same discussion a few months ago http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2013-June/107153.html The 'some other way' is hardware detection. And there is glimmer of hope that Intel may begin to do due diligence http://www.emulators.com/docs/LazyOverflowDetect_Final.pdf