19 Feb
2008
19 Feb
'08
4:13 p.m.
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:22 +0000, Adrian Hey wrote:
To be honest, in all my years of Haskelling I can't think of a single occasion where I've had a program get stuck in an infinite loop. I've had plenty of stack overflows, and they're reported on the mailing lists pretty regularly, but on all such occasions it's been caused by deep but very definitely finite recursion.
It's really pretty easy. I've occasionally done it by accident, it just requires changing names about in a let that was not recursive and suddenly it is recursive in a way that was not intended. Duncan