| Everything else about Haskell is so great and well thought out (eg
type
| classes, no side effects, higher rank polymorphism, existentials) it
seems a
| pity to throw all this away just because of one unfortunate feature
I thought it might be worth mentioning that GHC (well, the HEAD, which
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 09:22:34AM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
To: Brian Hulley [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joel Reymont [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org
From: Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:22:34 +0100
Subject: RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Functional
hi,
2006/6/22, Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[real big snip :)]
I think you're one of the best person to advocate pros and cons of
laziness/strictness.
So i'm a bit surprised to see this :
It's an experimental feature, and I'm interested to know how useful, or
otherwise, it turns out
+0100
Subject: RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Functional programming
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http://haskell.galois.com/cgi-bin/haskell-prime/trac.cgi/wiki/BangPatterns
Bang patterns make it much more convenient to write a strict function.
E.g
f (x, !y
