head[[]{}]
GHCi: [] Hugs: ERROR - Empty field list in update
What is the correct behavior?
Seems as if GHC interprets []{} as labelled construction instead of labelled update - 3 Expressions (the grammar productions): | qcon { fbind1 , ... , fbindn } (labeled construction, n>=0) | aexp<qcon> { fbind1 , ... , fbindn } (labeled update, n >= 1) But the grammar (3.2) makes [] and () into exceptions (gcon, not qcon) gcon -> () | [] | (,{,}) | qcon (though interpreting them as nullary constructors may be more consistent..). Btw, the language report is recommended browsing for all Haskellers: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Language_and_library_specification In addition to fun puzzles like the above, it also answers many beginner questions frequently asked on this list and provides lots of small code snippets. What do I win?-) Claus