On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Yes, but I think that the reason for laziness is not to make compiler > constructors' lifes easier but language users'.
I appreciate the prefer-users'-ease-over-compiler-writers' idea. For example, syntactic sugar can be a great thing. But I think there's a point where it becomes too much. Haskell has arguably passed that point. C++ arguably has too. Also, I'm not convinced that laziness does make users' lives easier -- witness a lot of the traffic on this list. Witness the subject of this thread. In which case the extra difficulty heaped upon compiler writers is of questionable value. Just my two cents. N _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
