[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] What's up with this Haskell runtime error message:

[Jon Fairbairn]

On 2006-04-05 at 14:03EDT "Michael Goodrich" wrote:
> BTW, I can't seem to locate 'haskell-cafe'.

http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

> The message responding to my sign-up said nothing about
> haskell-cafe.

Perhaps it should. It's so long since I signed up to haskell
that I've forgotten what the sign-up message says.

> Also, in my infinte-looping application, I am wrapping the
> calculation in a 'take 1000' function - shouldn't this
> guarantee termination?

Not on its own

   loop = loop:: Char
   l = [1,2,3,loop,5,6]

   putStr $ show $ take 4 l

will print 1 2 and 3 and then loop when trying to find the
value for the fourth.

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Jón Fairbairn                              Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk