[Haskell-cafe] Prelude.undefined

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 11:33:36 EST 2010


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Alexander Dunlap
> <alexander.dunlap at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How do I track down an reference to an undefined value?  My program
>>> must not be using a library correctly because the program makes no
>>> direct use of 'undefined'.  Running with +RTS -xc yields:
>>>
>>
>> While the debugger, etc., are very useful tools, I find that often the
>> easiest way to track down this sort of bug is to test your code
>> function-by-function.
>
> The debugger was not that helpful, so I may have to resort to this.
>
> Is there any work being done to improve reporting for these type of
> errors?  It seems to be a fairly common problem.

You try the Interlude? http://hackage.haskell.org/package/interlude

-- 
gwern


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