[Haskell-cafe] Re: haskell programming guidelines

[John Meacham]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:16:11AM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote:
> John Meacham wrote:
> >>>       Identity y = Map.lookup x theMap
> >>These are potential runtime errors, that may be not so obvious to see in
> >>the source (ie. for user defined types) and even the compiler (ghc) does
> >>not emit a warning.
> >
> >Indeed, that is the entire point of the construct. ghc definitly should
> >not emit a warning in this case as it is what lazy pattern matching
> >is for.
> 
> I prefer to be explicit about this kind of partiality (by using 'error 
> "<qualified function name>"')

I prefer the exact opposite :)

        John

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