[Haskell-cafe] If you'd design a Haskell-like language, what would you do different?

[Thiago Negri]

How would you represent it then?

Would it cause a compiler error?

Thiago.

2011/12/20 Ben Lippmeier <benl at ouroborus.net>:
>
> On 20/12/2011, at 6:06 PM, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
>
>> * Alexander Solla <alex.solla at gmail.com> [2011-12-19 19:10:32-0800]
>>> * Documentation that discourages thinking about bottom as a 'value'.  It's
>>> not a value, and that is what defines it.
>>
>> In denotational semantics, every well-formed term in the language must
>> have a value. So, what is a value of "fix id"?
>
> There isn't one!
>
> Bottoms will be the null pointers of the 2010's, you watch.
>
> Ben.
>
>
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