[clean-list] My very first program crashes!

[Maarten de Mol]

> It's without doubt that the program had errors, but is it normal that it
> produces no compile errors and simply CRASHES? I thought that the main
> benefit of CLEAN is that it has no run-time crashes...

One of the benefits of Clean it its strong type system, which is able to
catch many programming errors at compile time. There are, however,
also errors (like this one) that are not caught by the type system and will
still produce run-time errors.

So, a benefit of Clean could be that it produces LESS run-time crashes,
but, unfortunately, not all run-time crashes can be avoided. (or else the
halting problem would have been solved)

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Maarten de Mol