[Haskell-cafe] laziness blowup exercise

Bas van Dijk v.dijk.bas at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 03:57:25 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Ryan Ingram<ryani.spam at gmail.com> wrote:
> iterate' f x = x `seq` x : iterate' f (f x)
> seems better; it doesn't evaluate list elements you don't visit.

iterate'' f x = x : (iterate'' f $! f x)

...seems the most lazy strict iterate.

(Bas wishes for a type system that can express the different
strictness properties of these functions...)


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