<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi Tsun,<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>some details regarding my question. I got this assignment which gives me the following: SomeFunction :: Integer -> String. Which uses the show function to convert the Integer to String.</div></blockquote><div><br>
I believe you got that problem from the function showCC in Ex. 6 in my assignment ( <a href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/FP/Practicum#PracticumOne">http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/FP/Practicum#PracticumOne</a> ), since you're in my course.<br>
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<div> However it asks me how my function can fail?</div></blockquote><div><br>I want to know how, given the function's type, it can fail. This is particular to your definition. This is different from using the function on an expected type. That is not a case of the function failing but a case of the typechecker telling you the program is invalid.<br>
<br>Are there any values of Integer for which showCC produces an unexpected output? What about negative numbers, large numbers, etc? What does your function do for these cases?<br><br>I didn't ask you to do any error checking, so instead, I want you to tell me the limits of your function definition.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div> Now I also know that when I use 'undefined' I would get an error. So what other cases are there? (I asked my question about Floating because I guessed it would be similiar to Integers)</div>
</blockquote><div><br>The function is strict, so undefined would cause it to fail. I'm not really concerned with that kind of answer, because we aren't working with these values in the course, yet.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>At this moment I really can't figure out how my function can fail other than the inputs described above.</div></blockquote><div><br>AFAIKT, you just mentioned Float. This is a type mismatch, not a case in which showCC fails or provides unexpected output.<br>
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<div>Thanks for your help!<br></div></blockquote></div><br>I'm glad that you're being creative with how you're asking questions. I hope you have been taking advantage of the werkcollege and practicum sessions, too. Just so you know, there are some guidelines about asking homework questions on the mailing lists.<br>
<br> <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Homework_help">http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Homework_help</a><br><br>Don't forget: the deadline is tonight at 23:59. Good luck!<br><br>Regards,<br>Sean<br>