[Haskell-cafe] GHCi Loop Detection
Michal Terepeta
michal.terepeta at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 18:57:15 CEST 2012
On 01.06 11:06, John Van Enk wrote:
> Hi Cafe,
>
> Is there a reason that the GHCi interpreter doesn't detect and report
> infinite loops in statements like this (like compiled programs do) even
> though no CPU time appears to be used? My (admittedly weak) searching for
> an answer didn't turn much up.
>
> let s | not $ null s = [] in s
>
> GHCi v7.0.4 on OSX
>
> Thanks,
> John
Hi John,
I think this is a known problem in GHCi:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2786
Regards,
Michal
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