12 Oct
2011
12 Oct
'11
4:48 a.m.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk <jerzy.karczmarczuk@unicaen.fr> writes:
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