[cvs-nhc98] patch applied (nhc98): Prelude sum and product should really use foldl' not foldl.

[Malcolm Wallace]

Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:58:56AM -0800, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> > Thu Mar  1 08:54:37 PST 2007  Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
> >   * Prelude sum and product should really use foldl' not foldl.
> 
> Not according to the Haskell 98 report:

OK, you are the second person to complain within an hour of the checkin!
Maybe I should revert.  I was just trying to fix an egregious space leak
for the standard numeric types.  There are not too many genuinely lazy
numeric datatypes around.

Regards,
    Malcolm