23 Aug
2008
23 Aug
'08
7:30 p.m.
On 2008 Aug 23, at 17:29, C.M.Brown wrote:
I wonder whether seg faults are the true analogue to errors such as "error: head empty list." or pattern match errors.
Not really; while laziness does introduce a certain amount of "spooky action at a difference" to such errors, it's not nearly as bad as the memory corruption (due to effective type mismatches) that often leads to the segfault. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH