Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell maximum stack depth

On Feb 5, 2008 6:50 PM, Adrian Hey wrote:

Luke Palmer wrote:

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On Feb 5, 2008 2:50 AM, Adrian Hey wrote:

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I think it bites a lot less often than it otherwise would because most people will deliberately chose to use heap in preference to stack (at least when writing "eager" code) just to avoid the problem. But it still bites pretty often anyway with "lazy" code for unexpected reasons. Arguably such situations are indeed a "bug" more often than not, but I still think terminating the program unnecessarily (at 8M stack) is bad default policy.

Please, after all this, do give an example.

If you mean an example of coding style and choice of stack vs. heap, I already have..

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-January/038832.html

Ah, sorry, I must have missed that message. Luke