On 2008 Aug 23, at 17:29, C.M.Brown wrote:
I wonder whether seg faults are the true analogue to errors such as
"error: head empty list." or pattern match errors.

Not really; while laziness does introduce a certain amount of "spooky action at a difference" to such errors, it's not nearly as bad as the memory corruption (due to effective type mismatches) that often leads to the segfault.

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