Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] curious about sum

[Jochem Berndsen]

Alberto G. Corona wrote:
> Once more I forgot to send my messages to the haskell cafe list. All the
> rest of the list which I´m suscribed to, send  the mail replies to the list
> automatically, but this doesn´t. Please, can this be changed?.

This comes up every so often, but I would be against this. Your e-mail
client should support mailing lists.

> this version of foldl IS strict:
> 
> foldlStrict f z0 xs0 = lgo z0 xs0
>             where
>                lgo z []     =  z
>                lgo z (x:xs) =let t= f z x in t `seq` lgo t xs
> 
> main= print $  foldlStrict (+) 0 [1..1000000]
> 500000500000
> 
> so the garbage collector do the job in freeing the consumed part of the
> list

This is correct; the function you defined is equivalent to foldl' in
Data.List, if I'm not mistaken.

Regards,
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