[Haskell] Silent error

[Gregory Collins]

Integer overflow. factorial 50 mod 2^32 = 0.

Change "Int" to "Integer" to get the correct result
(30414093201713378043612608166064768844377641568960512000000000000).


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:17 AM, <miphis at meta.ua> wrote:

> The program looks like this:
>
> --***********************
> factorial :: Int->Int
> factorial n = product [1..n]
>
> main = do
>         print $ factorial 50
> --***********************
>
> And that yields "0" (no errors). Is it a bug or feature? :)
>
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Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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