[Haskell-cafe] HDBC Laziness (was Re: HDBC or HSQL)

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:56:30 +0200, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>  
wrote:

> I have heard from a number of people that this behavior is not very
> newbie-friendly.  I can see how that is true.  I have an API revision
> coming anyway, so perhaps this is the time to referse the default
> laziness of HDBC calls (there would be a '-version of everything with
> laziness enabled, still).
>
> Thoughts?
>

I would like the libraries as stable as possible; it seems to me that, if  
you make the functions strict, there should be a new set of functions for  
this. This prevents a lot of work on existing applications. I get the  
impression that the bit rot rate is very high for Haskell applications.


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