[Haskell-cafe] Callstack Implicit Param for Unsafe Prelude Functions

Marcin Mrotek marcin.jan.mrotek at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 19:23:55 UTC 2015


>
> Adding the implicit call-stack more than doubles the length of the type
> signature! This might seem like a silly complaint, but I think there's a
> real cognitive overhead there, especially when you consider that Prelude
> will be one of the first modules that novices might read the haddocks
> for.


Well, scaring beginners away from partial functions may be not that bad of
an idea ;)

Best regards,
Marcin Mrotek
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