A Pointless Library Proposal

[Robert Dockins]

On Oct 30, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:

> Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>> I've occasionally wondered about emitting a warning, but not an  
>> error,
>> when there's a type signature for a function but no definition. The
>> compiler could automatically generate an error message stub
>> implementation, much as it does for an incomplete pattern match, of
>> which this is an extreme example.
>
> I don't like this idea because the necessary stub is different for  
> different numbers of arguments, and there's no way to tell how many  
> arguments the programmer intended. I do like the idea of allowing  
> empty case expressions, though, and I don't think that even a  
> warning would be necessary.


This opinion++



> -- Ben


Rob Dockins

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