I agree (unless it has a performance cost). I had to fix a couple of
bugs in my code associated with generating zero-length arrays.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Edward Kmett wrote:
> It would still be nice to have a consistent base case.
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Johan Tibell
> wr
It would still be nice to have a consistent base case.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> > stg_newArrayzh in rts/PrimOps.cmm doesn't appear to give any indication,
> > so this might be a good patch to add. But I'm cur
I think this ticket sums it up very nicely!
Cheers,
Edward
Excerpts from Max Bolingbroke's message of Mon Aug 22 04:07:59 -0400 2011:
> On 21 August 2011 19:20, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> > And no sooner do I send this email do I realize we have 'inline' built-in,
> > so I can probably experiment w
| > I don't completely understant how does it work. Does client need to enable
| > language extension to get default instances?
|
| I think that the extension would only be required to *define them*,
| not for them to be generated. The more conservative choice would
| indeed be to require the exte
On 21 August 2011 19:20, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> And no sooner do I send this email do I realize we have 'inline' built-in,
> so I can probably experiment with this right now...
You may be interested in my related ticket #5029:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5059
I don't think this i
On 21 August 2011 21:03, Alexey Khudyakov wrote:
> I don't completely understant how does it work. Does client need to enable
> language extension to get default instances?
I think that the extension would only be required to *define them*,
not for them to be generated. The more conservative choi
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> stg_newArrayzh in rts/PrimOps.cmm doesn't appear to give any indication,
> so this might be a good patch to add. But I'm curious: what would
> allocating Array#s of size 0 do? Null pointers? That sounds dangerous...
I would imagine that a
