John Lato <[email protected]> writes: >> I want to find out the culprit function and rewrite it tail-recursively. Is >> there a way to find out which function is causing this error other >> than reviewing the code manually?
> I'd like to point out that a stack-space overflow in Haskell isn't quite the > same thing as in other functional languages. In particular, it's possible > for tail-recursive functions to overflow the stack because of laziness. ..in fact, you often want to *avoid* tail recursion (e.g. as implemented in foldl) and use something that is not tail recursive (e.g. foldr) but more laziness-friendly. Or use strictness (foldl'). -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
