Uninitialized UArray - feature or bug?

Tomasz Zielonka t.zielonka@students.mimuw.edu.pl
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 02:21:35 +0100


Hello!

This is a little weird:

Prelude> :m + Data.Array.Unboxed
Prelude Data.Array.Unboxed> let f () = array (1, 5) [] :: UArray Int Int
Prelude Data.Array.Unboxed> f () == f ()
False

Are we giving away purity for efficiency? ;)
If this behaviour is intended, maybe it should be documented?

Maybe it would be a good idea to define default values for types which
can be unboxed?

Regards,
Tom

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