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Re:Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf] by marcosdumay on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:39AM (#13130514)
That's like saying that bounds overflow in C isn't a problem, just something you have to be careful of.

To tell you the true, I can't understand why the code the OP talks about has a problem, and I can't even reproduce the problem (and never saw any of the problems of lazy IO in practice either). But I also can not say the code has no problem, and that is a big issue with the language.

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Re:Why Functional Programming Matters (1984) [pdf] by lomnakkus on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:45AM (#13130549)
> That's like saying that bounds overflow in C isn't a problem, just something you have to be careful of.

I think there's a significant difference between undefined behavior (hello security flaws!) and the program crashing in a (reasonably) well-defined way.

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