On 31/01/2012, at 5:47 AM, Doug McIlroy wrote: >> Is there any document describing why there is no ghc --strict flag >> making all code strict by default? >> Wouldn't such a '--strict' flag turn Haskell/GHC into a better C/gcc >> compiler? > > I agree that a strict flag would turn Haskell into C--but that's a > perversion of Haskell.
On the other hand, a designed-to-be-strict language-and-libraries with close-to-Haskell *syntax* would be nice. I recently described F# as combining the beauty of Caml with the functional purity of C# -- both of course are like the snakes of Ireland. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
