[Haskell-cafe] Signature for non-empty filter

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 10:25:43 EST 2008


Hello Henning,

Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 6:01:27 PM, you wrote:

> Is Haskell's type system including extensions strong enough for describing
> a function, that does not always return a trivial value? E.g.
>    (filter (\x -> x==1 && x==2))

such things may be detected by (too) smart compiler, but in general
it's undecidable: filter (if LifeHasMeaning then const True else odd) ;)

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