
11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
4:48 p.m.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Don't worry, my friend. Haskell is lazy, so there is no problem in "handling" those infinite modules. It will just take you an infinite amount of time before you get any money from such a work. But this is a general problem elsewhere as well.
I guess you must be thinking of Haskell being increasingly used in banks? It must have been some bank manager who, after hiring one too many Haskell programmers, invented a scheme that would generate an infinite amount of money. He didn't realize before it was too late that the actual value of the scheme would be bottom... -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants