[Haskell-cafe] Why this exception occurs ?

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri May 25 03:25:37 EDT 2007


leaveye.guo:
> Hi.
> 
> In GHCi ver 6.6, why this happens ?
> 
> Prelude Data.ByteString> Data.ByteString.pack $! Prelude.map (`rem` 256) $ [0..511]
> "*** Exception: divide by zero

Interesting...

Is that just,
    Data.ByteString.pack $ [0..255] ++ [0..255]
?

-- Don


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