On Sep 9, 2015, at 8:40 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Can you be more specific?  What does "gloss over" mean?

I mean that, for example, `length` will work over both strict lists and lazy 
lists. It will infer the strictness of its argument through ordinary type 
inference. So users have to be aware of strictness, but they will be able to 
use the same functions in both cases.

Richard
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