#5255: String literals cause runtime crashes when OverloadedStrings is in effect
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Reporter: YitzGale | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.0.3
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown
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Changes (by simonmar):
* type: bug => feature request
Comment:
Replying to [comment:6 jmillikin]:
> (side note: Calling this a "crash" is silly, since nothing crashes, and
the error is reported as a standard exception. The word "crash" should be
reserved for actual crashes, such as {{{peek nullPtr}}}).
Hear hear. I panicked when I saw the word "crash" in this bug report,
only to find that GHC is working exactly as it is supposed to.
This ticket is not a bug. It's not really a feature request either, since
there's no agreement yet on what changes should be made (if any), but I'm
changing it to a feature request so the discussion can continue here if
you like. It might be better to take this somewhere else though (e.g.
ghc-users).
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5255#comment:10>
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