Overloaded types in Samba
Posted May 24, 2007 7:04 UTC (Thu) by
roy_hu (guest, #43193)
In reply to:
Overloaded types in Samba by rfunk
Parent article:
Critical Vulnerabilities in Samba
In Haskell, the Maybe type is defined as
data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a
So if you're given something of Maybe Integer type, you have to pattern match it with the two constructors in order to get the integer value out of it.
I think his point is that you have to deal with failure upfront; you cannot ignore it.
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