Haskell pattern matching too strict?

Wed Jan 10 11:24:19 EST 2001

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:45:34 +0000 (GMT), Robert F. Pointon <rpointon at cee.hw.ac.uk> pisze:

> The argument that efficency/performance is more important that an
> evaluation mechanism with constant behaviour is a bit worrying...

It's more consistent to always match argument patterns strictly :-P
Efficiency is a side effect.

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