[Haskell-cafe] whine and solution about programmers not respecting documentations

Lars Viklund zao at acc.umu.se
Tue Jun 29 02:48:18 EDT 2010


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:44:34PM +0000, Albert Y.C.Lai wrote:
> I propose that at each minor version of base, someone picks an implementation
> randomly.
> 
> Here is a more radical, less labour-intensive solution, if you don't mind a
> judicious, correctness-preserving use of unsafePerformIO: at the first
> invocation of the process lifetime, pick an implementation randomly.

Over in ##c++, there is sometimes talk about an Evil Standard Library,
that attempts to do interesting things in response to any undefined
or implementation defined behaviour, triggering things like launching
NetHack.

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Lars Viklund | zao at acc.umu.se


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