"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2008 Oct 19, at 2:07, Friedrich wrote: >> Howerver even if Strings are bad I can not see why they are hanging >> around so long. I open a file a read it line by line and I close the >> file so all read string are "garbage" and getting rid of them should >> not be that hard or should it? > > > If your code is too lazy, you have the whole file + the close > operation hanging around in unevaluated thunks until you print the > result and it all gets processed all at once. Laziness is a double- > edged sword. Where in my code is this laziness hidden? Is it while recurions with sum and count?
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