[Haskell-cafe] Python is lazier than Haskell

[MigMit]

It would be, if only it checked the (necessary) types during compile time. As it is now, it seems like a claim that C is lazy just because any pointer can be null.

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Apr 27, 2011, в 13:30, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> написал(а):

> 
> I like to apply for the quote of the week. :-)
> 
>  "If Haskell is great because of its laziness,
>   then Python must be even greater,
>   since it is lazy at the type level."
> 
> Dynamically typed languages only check types if they have to, that is if expressions are actually computed. Does this prove that laziness at type level as in Python is a great thing or does this prove that laziness at the value level as in Haskell is a bad thing or does this prove nothing?
> 
> Hope for controversial discussion ...
> 
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