[Haskell-cafe] Int is broken [Was: Different answers on different machines]

[Tommy Thorn]

On Jun 2, 2013, at 12:52 , Henry Laxen <nadine.and.henry at pobox.com> wrote:

> Yes, that was it.  The dell was a 32 bit system, and the desktop a 64.  I 
> changed everything from Int to Integer, and now both agree.  Thanks for the 
> pointer.

Isn't that just terrible? I hate the fact that Haskell was defined to neither trap the overflow
or just treat everything as Integer [like Scheme]. A sacrifice of program safety in the name
of efficiency.

I disagree with this choice and posit that a clever implementation can minimize the cost
of the overflow checking in most relevant cases.

I wish this fatal flaw would be reconsidered for the next major revision.

Tommy