> Good start, if only the "advanced" were replaced with something more > characteristic, like "lazy", or "statically typed". Which, BTW, both do not > appear in the whole blurb, even though they are *the* characteristics of > Haskell, lazyness being even something that sets it apart from most other > languages.
AFAIK laziness is a property of the major implementations of Haskell, but not really of the language itself. All I see in the Haskell report points at it being "applicative", "call by name", but nowhere does the report seem to mandate a lazy strategy. It's just that being purely functional implies that the compiler is free to use laziness. Stefan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe