RE: Non-strictness vs. laziness (was RE: Sisal)

1999-09-24 Thread Frank A. Christoph
Bjorn Lisper wrote: Joe Fasel wrote: Actually, I think we were originally thinking of laziness, rather than nonstrictness, and weren't considering languages like Id as part of our domain, but Arvind and Nikhil (quite correctly) convinced us that the semantic distinction of strictness

Re: Non-strictness vs. laziness (was RE: Sisal)

1999-09-24 Thread Bjorn Lisper
Joe Fasel wrote: Actually, I think we were originally thinking of laziness, rather than nonstrictness, and weren't considering languages like Id as part of our domain, but Arvind and Nikhil (quite correctly) convinced us that the semantic distinction of strictness versus nonstrictness should

Re: Non-strictness vs. laziness (was RE: Sisal)

1999-09-24 Thread Joe Fasel
Frank Christoph wrote, | Ah, right. Someone mentioned just recently (I forget who---sorry) that | nothing in the Report forces a Haskell implementation to use call-by-need. I | guess this is a manifestation of the change of direction, from laziness to | non-strictness...? My point was meant to