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

[Gregory Crosswhite]

On Dec 20, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Jesse Schalken wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Ben Lippmeier <benl at ouroborus.net> wrote:
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> On 20/12/2011, at 6:06 PM, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
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> > In denotational semantics, every well-formed term in the language must
> > have a value. So, what is a value of "fix id"?
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> There isn't one!
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> Bottoms will be the null pointers of the 2010's, you watch.
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> This ×1000. Errors go in an error monad.

Including all possible manifestations of infinite loops?

Cheers,
Greg
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