25 May
2007
25 May
'07
8:24 a.m.
ketil:
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 17:33 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Sorry, I should clarify, think about how to represent:
256 :: Word8
So the error isn't really divide by zero, but overflow. I've been bitten by this, too, and L.Guo should count him/herself lucky to get an error, and not just incorrect results.
I've always thought that the obfuscation opportunities for Num literal overloading, combined with Num *overflowing* were underappreciated. instance Num String anyone? Mwhaha -- Don