[Haskell-cafe] Optimizing unamb by determining the "state" of a thunk?

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Yes indeed.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sure, so hnf would give us a non-determined result, but I don't think that
>> makes unamb any less referentially transparent – the same value is always
>> returned, and always reduced at least to hnf.
>>
>
> I think it is hnf that Peter was talking about needing to be in IO, not
> unamb.
>
> - Jake
>
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