[GHC] #7168: Loop

[GHC]

#7168: Loop
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 Reporter:  bas                          |          Owner:                                  
     Type:  bug                          |         Status:  new                             
 Priority:  normal                       |      Component:  Compiler                        
  Version:  7.4.1                        |       Keywords:  Lazy evaluation, Loop, Eagerness
       Os:  Unknown/Multiple             |   Architecture:  x86                             
  Failure:  Incorrect result at runtime  |       Testcase:                                  
Blockedby:                               |       Blocking:                                  
  Related:                               |  
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 When patternmatching on (a,b), the variables a and b are sometimes
 evaluated eagerly, though they should not be. To see where this occurs,
 please try to evaluate f :

 {{{
 f = (1,error "this will not be evaluated!") .++. carefully f
 (a,b) .++. (c,d) = (a+c,0)
 carefully (a,b) = (1, a + b)
 }}}

 Note that the expected result here is (2,0). My workaround: the program
 works correctly if the last line is replaced by:

 {{{
 carefully x = (1, fst x + snd x)
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7168>
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