[Haskell-cafe] Byte Histogram

Stephen Tetley stephen.tetley at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 12:40:00 CET 2011


On 7 February 2011 10:16, Jimbo Massive <jimbo.massive-haskell at xyxyx.org> wrote:

> It's often struck me that, this information is clearly part of the
> interface to a function, given that correct operation of calls to that
> function may depend on it, yet we (implicitly) pretend that it's not (by
> rarely documenting it).
>
> Would it not be both incredibly useful and possible to automatically
> document information of this sort using tools like haddock?

Interesting point, but excepting that its adding more complexity
Haskell type system, the Clean way of putting strictness information
into the type system seems preferable don't you think?



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