[Haskell-cafe] haltavista - look for functions by example

[Paul Brauner]

There's a timeout of 1.5 second right now..

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 07:46:54PM +0200, Roel van Dijk wrote:
> In my haste to reply I made an error in my 'newby' multiplication
> function. Pesky negative numbers...
> 
>   intMul ∷ Integer → Integer → Integer
>   intMul x n | n <  0 = -(intMul x $ abs n)
>              | n == 0 = 0
>              | n >  0 = x + intMul x (n - 1)
> 
> I do wonder what happens when haltavista encounters a function that
> diverges. Like my original intMul applied to a negative number:
> "intMul 2 (-1)".