I disagree. There are plenty of non-total functions in various libraries.
Prefixing all of them with "unsafe" seems like overkill. Consider fromJust:
it should be called unsafeFromJust, same for head, tail, init...
Best regards
Christopher Skrzętnicki
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 13:58, Chris Eidhof
Hey all,
I had some code where the function elems said a certain key was present, but looking it up returned a Nothing. After some debugging I found out that it did work if I used Prelude's lookup in combination with toList. After even more debugging it turned out there was a fromAscList somewhere deep down in my code where it should have been a fromList.
Now, I know that I shouldn't have used fromAscList and that it was totally my fault. I also realize this is something that can't easily be checked using the type system, so I propose we do the next best thing: prefix the name with 'unsafe'.
-chris
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