Hello Gregory, Thursday, August 24, 2006, 4:43:57 PM, you wrote:
> I agree this should be a FAQ. we already have something like this on performance/strictness wikipage. although adding your example of misusing $! may be helpful - peoples are always better learned on (good and bad) examples rather on bare theory > Perhaps I should write it up for the > performance section of the wiki? Looking back I see my mental error > was that I thought I was doing what you and everyone else correctly > suggested: > writeSTRef (state t) $! nextState s > but what I actually typed was > writeSTRef (state t) (nextState $! s) > which of course doesn't help. Another telling example > of the fact that coffee is not an entirely adequate substitute for > sleep. -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
