On 29/04/2011, at 6:08 PM, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > On 29 Apr 2011, at 05:38, Ben Lippmeier <b...@ouroborus.net> wrote: > >> Laziness at the value level causes space leaks, > > This is well-worn folklore, but a bit misleading.
:-) Like permanent markers in the hands of children causes suffering. It's not a tautology, but an overgeneralisation that holds more often than not. > If anything, I think there is observation bias: lazy programmers have good > tools for identifying, finding, and removing leaks. Others do not. Sharp tools well honed through years of hunting them down. If only they were never there in the first place. I don't disagree with you. My original comment was more bait than anything else. Ben. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
