[Haskell-beginners] Important coding guideline and library proposal

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Nov 22, 2009, at 15:25 , Stephen Tetley wrote:
> 2009/11/22 Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de>:
> I never noticed the docs didn't say anything about the complexity of  
> length.
>> That should indeed be mentioned.
>
> Maybe not too usual, neither the OCaml or MzScheme docs mention that
> length is not constant time (caveat - I'm not at the latest release of
> either).


But laziness means that it's not always obvious what time complexity a  
given function has, so it's a good idea to document it in all cases.

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