4 Jun
2001
4 Jun
'01
3:12 p.m.
Dear Ernest, this is my favourite Hugs `bug'. For an explanation see Simon Thompson' page on Some common (and not so common!) Hugs errors, cf `reverse []'. Cheers, Ralf
Sirs/Mesdames:
We are considering a course using Haskell. We have "Hugs 98: Based on the haskell 98 standard Copyright 1994-2001," downloaded just a few months ago. (This is under Windows NT.) The following puzzles us --
From the prelude: take 1 [ ] -- expected to return the empty list [ ], instead gives error message: ERROR - Cannot find "show" function for: *** Expression : take 1 [ ] *** Of type : [a]