On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Robert McIntyre <r...@mit.edu> wrote: > I thought that since into uses reduce, it would be lazy, but I was wrong. > reduce just plows through everything with a non-lazy recursion. > > Why is reduce not lazy? > reduce in clojure == foldl in Haskell
and as far as I know, there are very rare use cases for lazy foldl. The general rule of thumb in Haskell is use foldl'(strict version) or foldr(lazy). That may explain why reduce is not lazy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
