Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1/0

16 Jun 2008


      On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, David Roundy  wrote:
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Evan Laforge  wrote:
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Every other language throws an exception, even C will crash the
program, so I'm guessing it's telling the processor / OS to turn these
into signals, while GHC is turning that off.  Or something.  But then
what about this note in Control.Exception:
That's just not true.  It depends on how your system (compiler?) is
configured, but the default on most systems that I've used is to
return NaNs.
Sorry, I just read my post, and realized I quoted too much.  I was
responding to the first sentence about other languages, thinking of
octave, C and C++.

David