[Haskell-cafe] A few questions on primes generating.

[L.Guo]

Because 10,000,000 is too large for a Int, it is always in type of Integer or some higher level data type.

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L.Guo
2007-08-13

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From: Alexis Hazell
At: 2007-08-13 22:46:46
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] A few questions on primes generating.

On Tuesday 14 August 2007 00:22, L.Guo wrote:

> 2) We have this type definition :
>     pureSieve :: Int -> Int
>    Why there is no error (type mismatch) of this call in func main :
>     pureSieve 10000000

The Haskell Report says that an Int covers at least the range [- 2^29, 2^29 - 
1], which that number is well within . . . . why do you think it should 
report a type error? 


Alexis.
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