[Haskell-cafe] A probably-stupid question about a Prelude implementation.

[Andrew Coppin]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> no surprise - you got a lot of answers :)  it is the best part of
> Haskell, after all :)
>   

Only if you ask "easy" questions. ;-)

> the secret Haskell weapon is lazy evaluation which makes *everything*
> short-circuited. just consider standard (&&) definition:
>   

Again, only if you Do It Right(tm). But fortunately, that's not usually 
difficult... :-D