[Haskell-cafe] Re: Channel9 Interview: Software Composability and theFu ture of Languages

[Ketil Malde]

Kirsten Chevalier wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Bill Wood <william.wood3 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 19:51 +1100, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
>>    . . .
>> >     foldl (\water dish -> wash water dish) soapywater dishes :: 
>> [Dishes]
>>
>> Nice example.  First, note that you can't get close with map -- you need
>> accumulation across the dishes. [...]
> It also assumes that there's necessarily a natural decomposition on
> the dishes, and if you think there is, you haven't seen my kitchen!
>
Using a lazy fold may not be the best choice.  Although it may
sound enticing to delay washing until a clean dish is actually required
(and having the dirty dishes removed by the garbage collector, hopefully
before they start naturally decomposing), you will quickly run out of stack
space.

-k