On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 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. Yes. The rumor I heard is that Haskell is non-strict: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Lazy_vs._non-strict - jeremy _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
