I disagree. There are plenty of non-total functions in various libraries. Prefixing all of them with "unsafe" seems like overkill. Consider fromJust: it should be called unsafeFromJust, same for head, tail, init... <br>
<br>Best regards<br><br>Christopher Skrzętnicki<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 13:58, Chris Eidhof <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@eidhof.nl">chris@eidhof.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey all,<br>
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I had some code where the function elems said a certain key was present, but looking it up returned a Nothing. After some debugging I found out that it did work if I used Prelude's lookup in combination with toList. After even more debugging it turned out there was a fromAscList somewhere deep down in my code where it should have been a fromList.<br>
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Now, I know that I shouldn't have used fromAscList and that it was totally my fault. I also realize this is something that can't easily be checked using the type system, so I propose we do the next best thing: prefix the name with 'unsafe'.<br>
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-chris<br>
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