Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strange results when trying to create large Bool arrays.

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:55 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

In a similar vein, I was initially perplexed when I found that an expression like this produces garbage instead of an error:

read "11111111111111111111111111111111111" :: Int

I have not seen a lot of interest expressed in fixing this sort of misbehaviour, which jars a little with the usual emphasis on stringency and testing.

I'd really like to have errors on overflow, at least as an option, even if it is costly in terms of performance. Is there a Trac ticket or something for this? -k