Re: [Haskell-cafe] What ever happened to Haskell 98 as a stable branch?

2007-03-26 Thread Gen Zhang
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:20:59 +0100 Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | [Conjecture 1 (2007). Haskell Mathematical Prelude and Mathematicians] If | Haskell had a mathematically sound prelude then more mathematicians would | use Haskell. A mathematically sound Prelude would be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Maybe and partial functions

2007-03-13 Thread Gen Zhang
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:17:05 + Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi -- There are no pattern-matching failures here. -- The totality is harder to see: all digits are roughly of the same range, -- but each recursive call increments base. Eventually, base becomes bigger -- than

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Maybe and partial functions

2007-03-12 Thread Gen Zhang
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:37:43 + Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Catch also checks division by zero, explicit patterns etc. To see the world of pain you would be in if you go down the make everything total route, I suggest you try rewriting this program to be complete: