On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 7:23 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >To do any of that justice, you end up with a language that looks > basically like Haskell. So why not just use Haskell? > > Because I don't know anything about it (yet), except the name and the fact > that you often associated it with lazy evaluation. > > Because (#2), this could be a way to make sumabs and the likes obsolete in > *Julia*. :) >
We do really want to get rid of things like sumabs., so it's certainly worth considering. I know I've thought about it many times, but I don't think it's the right answer – you really want to preserve eager evaluation semantics, even if you end up moving around the actual evaluation of things.
