Jon Fairbairn wrote:
On 2004-10-29 at 00:03BST Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
Not much better, though: in my experience this particular exception leaves ghci in a very peculiar state, and it's usually necessary to quit and restart it before it will work again.
I don't think I've seen such a problem (maybe I so rarely make that type of mistake?;-). What version? What are the symptoms of this not working of which you speak? It seems OK in ghci 6.2.1
Well, here's a sample session I recorded just now: C:\>\ghc\ghc-6.2.1\bin\ghci ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.2.1, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> let p = 1 : [2 * x | x <- p, x < 1] in p [1*** Exception: <<loop>> Prelude> 123 Fail: thread blocked indefinitely C:\> Does this only happen to me? -- Ben