[Haskell-cafe] Python is lazier than Haskell

[Jason Dusek]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 07:19, Gracjan Polak <gracjanpolak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes I wish for a -fphp flag that would turn some type
> errors into warnings.
> [...]
> GHC could substitute 'y = error "Couldn't match expected type
> `[a]' against inferred type `()'"' and compile anyway.

  PHP doesn't really do dynamic type errors, though. To be more
  like PHP, the -fphp flag should surely coerce y to a list,
  using read and show if possible and otherwise using
  unsafeCoerce.

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