[Haskell-cafe] Using quickcheck to check for errors

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Rafael Almeida <almeidaraf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's say we want to quickcheck the function !!. Passing a negative index
> to it is an error. However, how can you make a check that it indeed errors
> in such situation?


The problem is that (!!) is a partial function, like head. How would you
check that head [] is an error?

What you could do is quickcheck a safe version of (!!) -- see Safe.atMay --
that returns a Maybefied type.

-- Kim-Ee
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