[Haskell-cafe] Why this exception occurs ?

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

ketil:
> On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 17:33 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, I should clarify, think about how to represent:
> > 
> >     256 :: Word8
> 
> So the error isn't really divide by zero, but overflow.  I've been
> bitten by this, too, and L.Guo should count him/herself lucky to get an
> error, and not just incorrect results.

I've always thought that the obfuscation opportunities for Num
literal overloading, combined with Num *overflowing* were
underappreciated.

instance Num String anyone? Mwhaha


-- Don