Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does this blow the stack?

dbenbenn:

On 12/21/07, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

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Because they simply aren't the same.

Good point; thanks. That means that Don's patch could theoretically break some existing Haskell program:

Prelude> length $ take 10 ([undefined ..] :: [Integer]) 10

That's right. It makes Integer behave like the Int instance. -- Don