Hi Murray,
The issue here is not whether or not the code is pretty or elegant, but whether or not I get correct execution of what I have, which is a correct statement of what I want (even if not the prettiest or most lint free), and I don't.
Sorry, I was merely responding to someone else suggesting ways to improve your code. Of course you are right - if the code goes wrong when written in an inelegant way that is the fault of the compiler, not the fault or the author! Trying your code I get 69 of output on stdout, then the message "fail" repeatedly on stderr. This happens whether I compile the code with -fasm or -fvia-c, using GHC 6.10. What are you expecting the code to output in each case, what command lines do you use, and which do you believe is correct? Please make sure you clean all the .hi and .o files between each build, so they don't have any confusing effects. As soon as someone else can reproduce the problem, they will probably be able to snip it down to a more manageable example. Thanks Neil