16 Jun
2008
16 Jun
'08
7:28 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote:
So, I know this has been discussed before, but: Every other language throws an exception, even C will crash the program, so I'm guessing it's telling the processor / OS to turn these into signals, while GHC is turning that off. Or something. But then what about this note in Control.Exception:
No, The issue is that '/' is always floating point division in haskell, for integer division, use `div`. 1 `div` 0 throws an exception like you expect. GHC behaves exactly the same as C here. But in C whether '/' means floating point or integral division depends on the types of its arguments, in haskell they are separate operators. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈