[Haskell-cafe] Strange type behavior in GHCi 6.4.2

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Dec 31, 2006, at 6:48 , Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> Oh, I have other arguments against pragmas.  :)
> But I think the best one is that optimization applied in the wrong
> place is just poor software engineering.
>
> As Michael A. Jackson said:
> The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it.
> The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don't  
> do it yet.

/me is moderately mystified that an experienced programmer hasn't  
discovered that one the hard way yet.

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