[Haskell-beginners] Disappointing thought on Haskell -- a simple space leak on "insert" is hard bug to catch

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:34 AM, KC <kc1956 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wouldn't the compiler know how "snd" works and therefore know that the
> first argument isn't needed?


No, snd is not a compiler built-in.

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