[Haskell-cafe] Crash in Data.ByteString.Lazy.hPut

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jan 28, 2008, at 17:33 , Jamie Love wrote:

> Shouldn't haskell pick up that there is no 'mod' for Word8?  I  
> mean, shouldn't I get a nicer error message?

Hm?  mod works fine for Word8, unless you specify a multiple of the  
type's bound.  I think it's still hard for compilers to catch that  
for you (very few compilers I know of will catch even an explicit  
divide-by-zero at compile time).

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