"Johan Tibell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It would be great if someone could exemplify these "rules of thumb",
> e.g. "Primitive types such as Int should be strict unless in the three
> canonical examples X, Y and Z." My strictness radar is still quite
> poor and I feel I can't make informed decisions on when I need to make
> something more strict or lazy.
I find that I often need to add strictness when:
left thumb) parsing [Char] into something more compact, i.e. almost
all cases.
right thumb) storing data into maps, especially when the values are produced by
multiple updates - i.e. doing word frequency counts.
-k
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