On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Zachary Turner <divisortheory@gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding the "black hole detection", is GHCI supposed to exit after printing <loop>?  Or is just supposed to print <loop> then return to a GHCI prompt?  Here's a transcript:

C:\Documents and Settings\Zach>ghci
GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Prelude> let f x = let p = x*x in let p = x*p in p
Prelude> f 7

C:\Documents and Settings\Zach>

Hmm, that's weird.  I note that here on linux, this expression gobbles up memory like nobody's business.  Maybe it's being killed for eating too much?  (I dunno)

Luke