Re: FW: [Haskell] parallel seq

2006-05-04 Thread Phil Trinder
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scherrer, Chad Sent: 25 April 2006 21:35 To: haskell@haskell.org Subject: [Haskell] parallel seq I was thinking about the dynamic behavior of par, and there's something that's a little confusing to me. Am I right in understanding that (x `par` y) evaluates to y, and may

[Haskell] parallel seq

2006-04-25 Thread Scherrer, Chad
I was thinking about the dynamic behavior of par, and there's something that's a little confusing to me. Am I right in understanding that (x `par` y) evaluates to y, and may or may not evaluate x along the way? I think it would be easier to reason about if we knew that x would be evaluated,