22 Mar
2007
22 Mar
'07
7:10 a.m.
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Duncan Coutts
It's interesting to note that the implementations in base for some functions in Data.List have been inconsistent with the report for years and nobody has noticed (or at least if they noticed they didn't complain very loudly).
I have certainly found some discrepancies in the past. If you never reason about partial or infinite values you're not likely to stumble over these inconsistencies, though. If you're a GHC user worried about partial/infinite values you should be aware that the GHC team now and then chooses a pragmatic solution instead of an exactly correct one. -- /NAD