[Haskell-cafe] Spot the difference!

[ajb at spamcop.net]

G'day all.

Quoting PR Stanley <prstanley at ntlworld.com>:

> Fully lazy? Can you elaborate please?

Sure.  that code again:

     test1 = \n _ -> 1+n
     test2 = \n -> let x = n+1 in \_ -> x

Suppose we have:

     f g x = g x + g x

And we try two options:

     f (test1 4) 3
     f (test2 4) 3

In the first case, (1+4) will be evaluated twice.  In the second case, it
will only be evaluated once.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage