Am Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2003, 10:52 schrieb Nicholas Nethercote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Robert Ennals wrote: > > Haskell is a good language, pureness is good, type classes are good, > > monads are good - but laziness is holding it back. > > Hear hear. > > I have often wondered how much simpler the various Haskell implementations > would be if they used strict evaluation. It seems like laziness complicates > implementations tremendously; the STG-machine paper makes my head spin.
Yes, but I think that the reason for laziness is not to make compiler constructors' lifes easier but language users'. > [...] > N W (or J) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
