bug in language definition (strictness)

Thomas Davie tatd2 at kent.ac.uk
Thu Aug 6 11:36:34 EDT 2009


On 6 Aug 2009, at 17:34, Mathias Stearn wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ross Paterson<ross at soi.city.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
>> There is no stack overflow in the denotational semantics.
>
> There is currently no denotational semantics simulator with an
> infinite stack. Until there is, Haskell programs will have to be
> executed on lowly physical computers with all the limitations that is
> implied. Can we please make things work well on them?

When writing a document that defines the denotation of values, no.   
Perhaps when considering operational semantics, but that's an entirely  
different matter.

Bob


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