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Why does this simple use of the State monad cause a stack overflow?
I was playing around with the State monad, and I don't know what's causing the stack overflow in this simple piece of code.
import Control.Monad.State.Lazy
tick :: State Int Int
tick = do n <- ...
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How to avoid stack space overflows?
I've been a bit surprised by GHC throwing stack overflows if I'd need to get value of large list containing memory intensive elements.
I did expected GHC has TCO so I'll never meet such situations.
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Recovering from stack overflow or heap exhaustion in a Haskell program
I am currently writting a genetic algorithm in Haskell in which my chromosomes are rather complex structures representing executable systems.
In order for me to evaluate the fitness of my chromosomes ...
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How to avoid stack overflow in Haskell?
Haskell does not support cycling for computation, instead it offers to use recursion algorithms. But this approach leads to growing of stack, and even stack overflow. I believe there should be ...
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Haskell foldl and stack overflow?
I read a posting claims foldl may occur stack overflow easily. And the posting sample code was:
maximum [1..1000000]
The code doesn't overflown in my machine. However it can vary by environment. I ...
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Why does this Show instance in Haskell (Hugs) cause a stack overflow error?
The following is a polymorphic data type in Haskell, interpreted by Hugs. I am trying to create an instance of Show for Equality.
The instance declaration says that if a type "a" is in Show, then ...
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Problem with Fibonacci Haskell Implementation
Just started re-learning Haskell (did it at uni but forgot most of it) and thought I would implement a Fibonacci function to start of with. However, I keep getting a stackoverflow, even for very small ...
