On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 13:21 +0100, Fred Nicolier wrote:
> I'am a little bit confused by the following error messages :
>
> \begin{code}
> import Array
> type SignalOf = Array Int
>
> funcSignal :: (Num a, Num b) => (Int, Int) -> (a -> b) -> SignalOf b
> funcSignal b f = listArray b [f (fromIntegral k) | k <- range b]
>
> instance (Num a) => Num (SignalOf a) where
> fromInteger k = funcSignal (minB, maxB) (const i)
> where minB = (minBound :: Int) + 1
> maxB = (maxBound :: Int) - 1
> i = fromInteger k
> \end{code}
>
> When testing on ghci ->
> *Main> let x = 1::SignalOf Int
> Loading package haskell98 ... linking ... done.
> *Main> bounds x
> zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) ghci infArray.hs
>
> Is it not possible to define a really huge array ?
No. The array really does get created with that huge number elements.
The Haskell Array type is lazy in it's *elements*, not its keys.
The underlying implementation something like a C array of pointers to
(not necessarily yet evaluated) values.
The Array type is just your ordinary O(1) indexable structure. If you
want a data structure that works well with sparse keys, you'll need to
look beyond the simple Array type. FiniteMap would work fine for this.
I can't immediately think of a collection data structure combining O(1)
lookup with a sparse key space however - that sounds quite tricky.
Duncan
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