[Haskell-cafe] GHCi Loop Detection

[Michal Terepeta]

On 01.06 11:06, John Van Enk wrote:
> Hi Cafe,
> 
> Is there a reason that the GHCi interpreter doesn't detect and report
> infinite loops in statements like this (like compiled programs do) even
> though no CPU time appears to be used? My (admittedly weak) searching for
> an answer didn't turn much up.
> 
> let s | not $ null s = [] in s
> 
> GHCi v7.0.4 on OSX
> 
> Thanks,
> John

Hi John,

I think this is a known problem in GHCi:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2786

Regards,
Michal