Shooting yourself in the foot, a contribution

[Ashley Yakeley]

In article <5EC64D96-897F-11D7-89D4-00039369159A@griffith.edu.au>,
 Andrew Rock <A.Rock@griffith.edu.au> wrote:

> I agree. You can't shoot yourself in the foot. You have to make a new 
> foot
> with a hole in it. If you don't like it, your old foot persists.

In Haskell, it's provably impossible to shoot yourself in the foot 
without using unsafeShootSelfInFoot. Curiously, this doesn't stop people 
using unsafeShootSelfInFoot in released software.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA