Re: Strict functions

2001-10-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:11:05AM +1000, Andrew J Bromage wrote: > G'day all. > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:30:59PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > > Also, the prelude definition of zipWith has LVL whereas the following > > definition has LVV. Why is something like the following not used? > > >

Re: Strict functions

2001-10-21 Thread Jon Fairbairn
> > If xs is finite, your version of zipWith would evaluate the infinite > > list [1..] one place beyond that which was really needed. > > Sure, there is a single extra amount of evaluation needed to work out if > there is a following list item (I guess this could be quite high in more > complex

5.02 MonadError Broke My Code

2001-10-21 Thread Ashley Yakeley
MonadError seems to have been redefined in 5.02 to have a fundep: 5.00.2: class (Monad m) => MonadError e m 5.02: class (Monad m) => MonadError e m | m -> e Why? Perhaps the IO Monad can have only one kind or level of error, but why can't other Monads have more? Anyway, because of G