Re: Shooting yourself in the foot, a contribution

In article <5EC64D96-897F-11D7-89D4-00039369159A@griffith.edu.au>, Andrew Rock wrote:

I agree. You can't shoot yourself in the foot. You have to make a new foot with a hole in it. If you don't like it, your old foot persists.

In Haskell, it's provably impossible to shoot yourself in the foot without using unsafeShootSelfInFoot. Curiously, this doesn't stop people using unsafeShootSelfInFoot in released software. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA