[Haskell-cafe] Haskell as a religion

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 11:47:11 EST 2008


2008/12/18 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu>:
> On 2008 Dec 18, at 9:13, John Goerzen wrote:
>>
>> Some ideas in Haskell are easy to integrate into other languages: see
>> list comprehensions in Python.  I don't see Perl picking up pervasive
>> laziness anytime soon, nor Python compile-time type inference.
>
> I think perl6 is specced with pervasive laziness, although I'm not sure it's
> actually implemented anywhere.

I assumed it was implemented lazily, so that when you use it
somewhere, the Perl 6 developers implement that part of the feature
:-)

Paul.


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