[Haskell-cafe] Lazy Lists and IO

Brent Yorgey byorgey at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 14:40:15 EDT 2007


> > Nevertheless, length is a function you should rarely use.
> >
>
> Amen.
>
> (I believe the Wiki mentions this concept somewhere... Maybe we should
> rename it unsafeLength? No, OK, how about... um... slowLength?)


It isn't actually slow... how about
beSureYouReallyWantIntBeforeUsingThisLength? =)
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