[Haskell-cafe] Tutorial on Haskell

Albert Y. C. Lai trebla at vex.net
Mon Apr 16 15:21:06 EDT 2007


Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Things
> like laziness are cool, but are harder to convince a strict programmer
> that they are useful.

Strict programmers like the "yield" command too. The same behaviour can 
be obtained by laziness, with easier reasoning.

That said, strict programmers may or may not like easier reasoning. 
Also, laziness in general (when not restricted to generators) is not 
easier to reason either.



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