Andrew Coppin wrote:
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Also, large numbers don't (this is arguably a bug...) have restricted
types:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ghc -e '1000000000000000000 :: Int'
-1486618624
So many other programming languages allow weird things to happen with
numeric overflows... it would be nice if Haskell didn't.
Shall we have a GHC warning if it can detect those cases, either the
Haskell report bounds or that of the target GHC is currently compiling
to? (of course someone would have to implement it, and there would
always be cases it didn't check, and the (non-portable) behavior is
sometimes desired...)
Hugs often does throw an exception (runtime error) rather than allow Int
overflow (but not always).
Isaac
_______________________________________________
Haskell-Cafe mailing list
Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
