Black Hole's in Hugs?

[Hans Aberg]

At 16:40 -0600 2001/04/11, Alastair Reid wrote:
>> The concrete question is: What does {_Gc Black Hole} mean?
>
>A black hole is a particular kind of cyclic definition ...
> a special kind of infinite loop which, it turns out, a garbage
>collector is able to detect.
...
>Hmmm, I can see why the error message puzzled you - perhaps we should
>change the message?  {Infinite Loop} is the best I can come up with.

Perhaps {GC detected infinite loop}.

  Hans Aberg
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