Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] What's up with this Haskell runtime error message:

5 Apr 2006


      On 4/5/06, ihope  wrote:
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On 4/5/06, Michael Goodrich  wrote:
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Looks like my calulation involves a self referential set of definitions.
Is Haskell not able to deal with a self referential set of definitions?
Yes, it is, but not if that definition doesn't evaluate to a "proper"
value. For example:
main = do
  print x
  where x = 3 * x^2
What do you expect this to do?
It may help if you toss us the offending code.
I will be glad to.  But just to make it more simple,  it is a recursive
function with a self referential set of definitions that builds a list like
this :
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 foo  (step,r0,mu0) = bar (step,r1,r0,mu1,mu0)
    where
    r1 = r0-step*rd
    mu1 = mu0-step*mud
    rd = c*c*mu0
    mud = c*c/r0 - (foobar_r z)/c
    c = baz(z)
    z = 6.378388e6-r0

baz z | z<125 = -0.25*z+1537.5
        | otherwise = 0.0169*z+1504.1

foobar_r z | z<125 = 0.25
    | otherwise = -0.0169

bar (step,r2,r1,mu2,mu1) = (r,z0) : bar (step,r1,r,mu1,m)
    where
    r = r2+2*step*rdc
    m = mu2+2*step*mudc
    rdc = (rd2+rd1+rd0)/6
    mudc = (mud2+mud1+mud0)/6

    rd2 = c2*c2*mu2
    mud2 = c2*c2/r2 - (foobar_r z2)/c2

    rd1 = c1*c1*mu1
    mud1 = c1*c1/r1 - (foobar_r z1)/c1

    rd0 = c0*c0*m
    mud0 = c0*c0/r - (foobar_r z0)/c0

    c2 = baz(z2)
    c1 = baz(z1)
    c0 = baz(z0)

    z2 = 6.378388e6-r2
    z1 = 6.378388e6-r1
    z0 = 6.378388e6-r

main :: IO ()
main = do
    print $ take 100 (foo (0.1, 6.378388e6,0))