[Haskell-cafe] Confused about Cyclic struture
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
karczma at info.unicaen.fr
Tue Jul 12 05:02:06 EDT 2005
Bernard Pope wrote:
>I'll be a little bit pedantic here. Haskell, the language definition,
>does not prescribe lazy evaluation. It says that the language is
>non-strict. Lazy evaluation is an implementation technique which
>satisfies non-strict semantics, but it is not the only technique which
>does this.
>
>
This pedantry is renewed periodically.
It is a pity that nobody ever writes anything about that other
methods of implementation of non-strictness, nor about the
languages which use those methods.
I believe it might do some good to people who learn functional
programming in general, and Haskell in particular.
Any takers?
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
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