[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell vs OCaml

Andrew Pimlott andrew at pimlott.net
Wed May 4 00:04:46 EDT 2005


On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:40:13PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> That leaves one aspect of Haskell vs Ocaml I don't yet understand.
> What are the advantages of lazy evaluation?

The advantage of lazy evaluation is that evaluation order becomes one
less thing you have to think about.  The disadvantage of lazy evaluation
is that evaluation order becomes one more thing you have to think about.

Andrew


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