Re: Strict functions

2001-10-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:11:05AM +1000, Andrew J Bromage wrote: G'day all. On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:30:59PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: Also, the prelude definition of zipWith has LVL whereas the following definition has LVV. Why is something like the following not used? zipWith

Re: Strict functions

2001-10-21 Thread Jon Fairbairn
If xs is finite, your version of zipWith would evaluate the infinite list [1..] one place beyond that which was really needed. Sure, there is a single extra amount of evaluation needed to work out if there is a following list item (I guess this could be quite high in more complex cases -