RE: loop?

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/bugs.html

Regrettable, but documented.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jon Fairbairn [mailto:Jon.Fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
| Sent: 03 March 2003 11:40
| To: GHC bugs
| Subject: loop?
| 
| The following module takes an inordinately long time to
| compile in ghc[i] (5.04):
| 
| module Y2 where
| 
| -- define the Y combinator without using built in recursion
| 
| data Y2 t = Recur (Y2 t  -> (t -> t) -> t)
| 
| y f = y2 (Recur y2) f
|       where y2:: Y2 t -> (t -> t) -> t
|             y2 (Recur y2') f = f (y2' (Recur y2') f)
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