[Haskell-cafe] curious about sum
Roman Cheplyaka
roma at ro-che.info
Sun Jun 14 06:47:51 EDT 2009
* Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan at gmail.com> [2009-06-13 16:17:57+0200]
> I remember needing a non-strict sum at least once, but I do not
> remember the exact application.
We may agree that lazy sum is sometimes (rarely) needed, but then it can
be always written as fold. However, in most cases user wants strict sum.
So it's not really an excuse.
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