Exhaustive Pattern-Matching

Steffen Mazanek steffen.mazanek@unibw-muenchen.de
Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:41:00 +0200


Hello,

I have a question about pattern-matching. In the Haskell-report it is 
not postulated, that
pattern matching has to be exhaustive. Would it be possible at all to 
implement an
algorithm, which checks Haskell-style patterns for exhaustiveness? What 
kinds of
complication can be expected? Maybe you have some pointers to other 
resources about
this topic.

Thank you,
Steffen