[Haskell-cafe] Things stopping pure Haskell code from having a cross-platform single semantics?

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Nov 11 15:10:18 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, what else?  What other holes are there that allow my pure functions to
> change their answer on different machines?  I'm making a list of these in a
> paper and I want to make sure I give a full account.
>

Not something likely to strike the average program, but all the CAFs in
System.Info are pure (not in IO). And two of them claim to be *runtime*
information. :(

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