[Haskell-cafe] Lazy in either argument?

Tim Chevalier catamorphism at gmail.com
Thu Jul 26 21:40:23 EDT 2007


On 7/26/07, Tim Chevalier <catamorphism at gmail.com> wrote:
> To elaborate on that, the different behavior between the two versions
> of Dan's code, one with and one without a type signature, happens
> because f compiles like so if the type signature isn't given (this is
> the STG code):
>
> f_ri5 = \u [] let-no-escape { f1_sPY = NO_CCS[] \u [] f1_sPY; } in  f1_sPY;
> SRT(f_ri5): []
>

Also (talking to myself), in the lambda-form that is the rhs of f1_sPY
above, shouldn't f1_sPY be contained in the free-variable list for
itself?

Cheers,
Tim

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