Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> make a typo in a C program, the program stops and says "error: 
>>> segmantation fault".
> 
>> *If* you're lucky.  What's worse is when it *doesn't*. :-)
> 
>   You seriously claiming that if you make a typo in Haskell, it always
> magically knows that and gives you an error message?

Me? No.

I'm saying you're lucky if when you make a mistake in C you get a segfault. 
If you're unlucky, you clobber some random unrelated variable that *is* 
allocated and things progress as normal except with totally undefined results.

If you make a mistake in Haskell such that the results are undefined, it 
stops in a way that's probably pretty easy to debug compared to a segfault in C.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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