User talk:Jeffwheeler

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Hey, thanks for pointing that out! I'm not entirely sure if I wrote that (or if I moved it from some pre-existing wikibook text), but it's interesting to hear anyway. Anyway, welcome to the project -- Kowey (talk) 23:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Also, I'd be curious to see what makes it choke -- Kowey (talk) 23:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, I found it in the Haskell/Elementary_Haskell exercise of running, and I checked the history, and got the impression you wrote it; I didn't spend much time on that though, so it's entirely possible I made a mistake. :) Anyways, using the function definition in that section, I also got a stack overflow running when executing said function in ghci 6.8.2 on a Debian system. Jeffwheeler (talk) 04:36, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hang on a sec,  works too, right?  Because   works fine for me.  If it's stack overflowing on , you might have an infinite loop on your hands.  -- Kowey (talk) 08:02, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You're correct. I had put the function definitions in the REPL itself with a  statement before each line, and therefore was rewriting the first definition. Funny, I didn't try that on any of the other pattern matching functions (I progressed way past that chapter already); not sure why I did that. A note though, might help somebody in the future. Jeffwheeler (talk) 22:11, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Good idea! Please consider yourself invited! (seriously, we even have an IRC channel #haskell-books and a wikibook at haskell.org mailing list to discuss this kind of stuff. More contributors, especially users of the book are always welcome -- Kowey (talk) 22:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)