RFC: Add HasCallStack constraint to partial Data.List functions.

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Fri Jun 4 20:57:51 UTC 2021


On Fri, 4 Jun 2021, Henrik Nilsson wrote:

> And besides those, there are other perfectly reasonable functions like 
> (!!) and foldr1 that I'd definitely would not say never should be used, 
> just as I would not say that array indexing or integer divisions must be 
> shunned because they are partial.

I prefer to replace (xs!!k) by

    case drop k xs of
       [] -> defaultX
       x:_ -> x

or do not use indexing on lists, at all, because of performance reasons. I 
use foldr1 only on non-empty lists.

Division by non-zero divisors would be nice to have, but currently we can 
only have it with Liquid Haskell.


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