[racket-dev] Potential Constant Propagation Bug
I have found what I think may be a bug in Racket's constant propagation:
(unsafe-fx* 0 (error 'foo))
does not throw and error and evaluates to 0. If 0 is replaced with
another value, or if it's `read' in, the error is thrown.
`unsafe-fxquotient' has the same issue.
On the one hand, this is an unsafe operation, so maybe I shouldn't
expect the error to be thrown. On the other hand, I would expect
effectful arguments to functions to be evaluated no matter what.
Is this a bug, or is this the desired behavior for unsafe operations?
Vincent