#69: Pattern match error can be arbitrarily long
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Reporter: neil | Owner: nobody
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: hugs | Version: 200609
Keywords: |
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Given the program:
test n = length val `seq` f val
where val = replicate n (toEnum 12)
f "" = ""
> test 3
Program error: pattern match failure: f [toEnum 12,toEnum 12,toEnum 12]
Unfortunately, as you bump up n (try 10,000) Hugs spits and more and more
information - when the most important bit of this message is "f" - which
you end up loosing.
I suggest truncating pattern match errors at (say) 500 characters, or
perhaps 500 characters per argument.
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