24 Oct
2008
24 Oct
'08
2:13 p.m.
newsham:
The point is... I'm not doing that. Gtk2hs is, but that's a well-tested library, so I very much doubt it's the source of the bug.
I don't understand why Haskell users believe (perhaps are too often led to believe) that haskell programs can't crash. Gtk2hs does a lot of native stuff. Gtk's been around for a long time, but so has a lot of other software that has lots of bugs still present in it. Often these bugs lead to memory corruption and crashes. Haskell does nothing to prevent this from happening (how could it?).
Haskell programs with particular constraints (i.e. pure, total Haskell, doesn't primarily call gtk...) -- Don