David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm pretty certain that forcing a pattern match via case is what disallows
> the laziness to get out of hand. The case statement, when evaluated, must
> choose a matched pattern branch, even if it's the only possibility, which
> ends up boiling down to "seq" anyway doesn't it?
Prelude> case undefined of x -> ()
()
So I think you are incorrect: the 'undefined' here isn't evaluated by
the case.
-k
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