[Haskell-cafe] GHCi Loop Detection

[John Van Enk]

Thanks.

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Michal Terepeta
<michal.terepeta at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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