25 May
2007
25 May
'07
8:17 a.m.
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. IMO, this is a rather nasty hole in the safety nets that Haskell is so abundantly endowed with. Does any Haskell implementation support overflow detection? -k